{"id":911,"date":"2006-11-17T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T23:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/11\/17\/a-letter-to-the-editor-workplace-safety\/"},"modified":"2015-09-20T20:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T03:59:57","slug":"a-letter-to-the-editor-workplace-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2006\/11\/17\/a-letter-to-the-editor-workplace-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"A Letter to the Editor – Workplace Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this letter a couple of days ago, to the Lethbridge Herald, our MLA and the Minister of Human Resources and Employment in Alberta.<\/p>\n

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Dear Honourable Clint Dunford, Honourable Mike Cardinal and Editor, Lethbridge Herald,<\/p>\n

I thought employers had learned their lesson a few years ago when a Subway employee in Calgary was murdered while working alone on the graveyard shift? Apparently not.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday 15 Nov issue of the Herald, it was reported that the westside Mac?\u00a2\u201a\u00c7\u00a8\u201a\u00d1\u00a2s Store was robbed while a lone female employee was working the graveyard shift. Although Alberta currently does not have regulations about working alone, perhaps it is about time it did. <\/p>\n

This document<\/a> explains how to reduce the risk to workers being alone; however, as is perfectly evident, the guidelines do not eliminate risk.<\/p>\n

This is all an employer is required to do:<\/p>\n

If an employer has workers who work by themselves, the OHS Code requires the employer to:<\/p>\n