Thread: Dilema about safety

Hi

I have been asked to be on duty a a show home - an apartment which is the only one in the entire development which is completed and the rest of the site is under construction.

In the week, this is ok as there are builders about and I do not feel so isolated. However, at a wekend, the site is deserted with just myself in the show property.

I feel very vulnerable and not safe and have expressed this. I have been told I have to do this but I don;t feel safe in doing so.

It has now been put to me that if I do not work as outlined above, I am not doing my job and put into the position that, if I refuse I will be disiplined and probably dismissed.

any thoughts out there?

I have worked there for 15 years. Exchanges have been verbal only. There is no union. There is a lone working policy which is a control that you ring into and then confirm when working is finished. I accept this is better than nothing but I also think that if anything happened and this is only discovered when you do not ring in to sign off, it is too late - damage has already been done.