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Lone Worker Safety for Child Care Professionals: Comply with Manitoba Working Alone Regulations and Keep Staff Protected
Child care staff face many challenges as they care for their children each day and they also face additional risks as they often work alone:
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- Walking children to and from the daycare.
- Waiting for children to get picked up or dropped off from the bus alone.
- Opening or closing the child care facility each day.
- Management team working alone in the building or isolated in an office away from the program.
- Cleaner/housekeeper working after hours alone.
The Province of Manitoba’s Working Alone Regulation (Section 9 of the Manitoba Workplace Safety & Health Act) defines “Working Alone” as the performance of any work function by a worker who:
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- is the only worker for that employer at that workplace at any time, and
- is not directly supervised by the employer, or another person designated as a supervisor by the employer, at any time.
As the employer, you must:
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- Identify risks arising from the worker’s work and take steps to eliminate or reduce these risks.
- Develop a safe ‘working alone’ policy and procedures and provide training of the procedures.
- Establish an effective form of communication.
- Communication must include a system of regular contact on appropriate/predetermined intervals (Safety Checks Frequency).
These roles qualify under provincial lone worker safety legislation, and proactive safety systems are critical to ensuring compliance and staff well-being. Our remote worker safety solutions meet these communication requirements with automated check-ins, emergency alerts, and GPS-enabled lone worker monitoring.
With ProTELEC’s Safe Alone app—a proven lone worker safety app—you can protect your staff and comply with Manitoba’s Working Alone Regulations.
If an emergency occurs, your child care staff can trigger an emergency alarm to notify ProTELEC’s Emergency Monitoring personnel instantly. Location coordinates are sent with the alarm and updated when the phone location changes. The Safe Alone system supports your child care lone worker policy with compliant, real-time safety technology for frontline and admin staff alike.
Managing Lone Worker Safety Checks Couldn’t Be Easier:
- Safety Checks are controlled with the push of a button. Simply open the smartphone app and click ‘Activate’.
- Check in with the tap of a button.
- Proactively check in to confirm your safety and reset the clock.
- With each check-in, the location coordinates are collected.
- After each check-in is confirmed, the next check-in time is displayed, and reminders occur via pop-up notifications.
- Our work alone monitoring system operates 24/7 to ensure no check-in is missed—even during after-hours shifts or in off-grid areas with limited cell coverage.
In 2023, we made over 3.4 million Safety Checks on employees working alone.
Discover why CheckMate is considered one of the best lone worker apps for education and child care environments:
“We recently implemented Checkmate to protect our staff when working alone and to ensure we were meeting the provincial regulatory requirements. The app is very user-friendly, was simple to implement and is cost- effective. As an organization, Checkmate provides us with peace of mind knowing our staff are checked on while working alone and can signal for help should something happen.”