Work at Home Moms - Question

Re: Work at Home Moms - Question

• CarrieB. member

  March 2015

  Tornados? Fire? Snow emergency? Do you have confidential stuff you have to lock up?

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• 2-Step member

  March 2015

  As a female working from home alone, sometimes I worry about burglars. Most home invasions happen during the day when people are expected to be at work. M parents experienced a home invasion during the day a couple years ago, my mom almost interrupted it when she came home for lunch. It seems that people come from the "other side of the tracks" to the nicer neighborhoods where professionals are expected to be gone all day.
  
  Things like leaving a car parked in the driveway instead of the garage and having security system, letting other neighbors who are home during the day know you are there, could be recommendations. Maybe that is far fetched for a work from home safety guide, but it is something I think about sometimes when I'm alone here.
  
  Locking stuff up is another great one, and not just in a safe sitting somewhere, make sure it is bolted to something so it can't be grabbed on the way out the door.
  
  
  

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• CarrieB. member

  March 2015

  I wanted to add that you want to have emergency contacts on file for everyone and some kind of daily check in.
  
  Yesterday one of my coworkers didn't show up for work and we called his emergency contact. She went to his house and he'd had a stroke.

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• CaniacMom member

  March 2015

  Thank you everyone.  These are some really good points to put in the checklist/policy.  A friend who is in IT gave me some ideas on computer security since I use a VPN to connect to the company computer.  
  
  I worry about the burglary/home-invasion thing because my home office is in the front of the house and can be easily seen from the porch/front sidewalk.  I hate to keep the blinds closed all day because I love the natural light.  
  
  About 8 years ago we had a colleague who did not show up for work.  This we unlike her.  She was single & lived alone.  No one could get her on the phone so a HR gave her manager her address - he got there and she was dead on the floor from a heart attack.  
  
  
  

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• MaggieF516 member

  April 2015

  I work from home 2 days a week, but I also work for a large insurance company so I know a bit about work place safety and injury claims that could result.  You would want to ensure that the employees had workstations that were ergnonimically correct.  There is a lot of info available on safe workstation set up.  My company ensures our desks in the office are correct, but employees that work from home need to ensure they have appropriate set up as well.  This is important to prevent cumulative trauma injuries such as carpal tunnel, etc.

  

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