Purpose 

The purpose of the Validus Energy Lone Worker Program is to communicate how the company monitors certain situations whan an employee is working alone.

The program is found on the Programs tab of Validus.Energy

General Requirements

During periods of severe weather, the employees shall provide their supervisor with a positive response when they have completed their activities and are home.

Supervisors will begin to attempt to make contact with an employee when they are 10 minutes late from an assigned check-in time.

Specific Activity Limitations

The following activities may not be done by a Validus Energy employee working alone.

·       Confined Space Reclassification

·       Hot Work

·       Heavy equipment operation

·       Excavation of greater than 18 inches 

·       Elevated work requiring personal fall protection

·       Electrical work over 480V

Policies

Validus Energy employees are required to provide the company with a cell phone number and must respond when working or on-call.

 Supervisors will designate days in which this policy is in effect.

Non-contact actions

If the employee fails to respond at the scheduled contact time repeated contact efforts will be made for 1 hour, then every 10 minutes until the employee is located.

 If contact has not been made within 30 minutes of the agreed upon contact time, the Operations Superintendent and EHS Leadership will be notified by the supervisor.

If contact has not been made within 1 hour of the agreed upon contact time, a search effort will be undertaken.