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Lone Worker Safety Training
This CPD accredited Lone Worker Safety Training is an essential eLearning course that helps lone workers to stay safe when commuting and working alone. It covers planning ahead, diffusing tension, recognising signs of aggression, handling emergencies, and a variety of actions they can take to care for their mental and physical health whilst working alone, no matter what the location. Our online lone worker course can be accessed from anywhere at any time.
4.6/5 based on 1,207 course reviews
Learning outcomes
- Understand your employer's responsibilities with regards to your safety at work
- Gain practical skills that keep you vigilant, confident, and safe while you work alone
- Learn about implementing simple safety strategies when staff travel to, from, and for work
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 3 sections
- 1 Preparing & Travelling
- 2 Responsibilities
- 3 Practical Safety Measures
SECTION 1
Our first section, will start going to start with what employees should consider before they leave for work, and then we’ll discuss their commute and travel.
SECTION 2
In this section, we’re going to give staff an overview of who is responsible for what during the course of their shift, and we’ll look at what measures are in place, and what procedures need to be followed, to keep all staff and others safe.
SECTION 3
In this final section, we’re going to take learners through some practical safety measures and techniques that they can use while lone-working.
About this course
This Lone Worker Safety training programme has been designed to help increase personal safety during a working day - specifically, those working alone or away from colleagues.
It also applies to those whose job requires them to receive visitors, members of the public, customers, or patients - in fact, anyone they may not know. Although personal safety at work is something that concerns everyone, lone workers are more vulnerable and at greater risk of violence and aggression.
This course will introduce the topic of personal safety; looking at increasing observation and awareness of other people's behaviour and making sure you have strategies to avoid threatening situations.
Although it's hard to believe, around 46% of workers in the UK consider themselves to be 'lone workers' and they come from various industries, such as housing, social & health, homeworkers, transport & logistics, construction, retail and out of hours work.
Lone working is completely legal, however, employers have a legal obligation to consider risks to health and safety. We believe our Lone Worker Safety Training to be the perfect solution.
Presented by
Nadira TudorThe importance of Lone Worker Safety Training
It’s important that you comply with the law and understand the positive impact this training course can have on your organisation and employees.
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Lone Worker Safety certificate
Download and print
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Lone Worker Safety Training concludes with a 10 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questions guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Lone Worker Safety Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Please note if you are using our course content via SCORM in a third party LMS then we are unable to provide certificates and you will need to generate these in your host LMS yourself.
1,207 real user reviews
very informative and important
The style of presenting was very direct and at times quite severe but I appreciated by the end how this was necessary to help stay fully aware of the information and its own areas of severity. Unlike other courses it offered breaks for processing (which I took). This is something that may be useful for other courses too that are similarly quite intense
A simplistic course
I’m afraid I found this course rather condescending. I’m not sure if it was designed for adults but it was rather odd.
clear concise
Ive been on other courses on lone workers training but this course was very clear and concise and covered all aspects of lone working it also made you think about risks that wasn't even thought about . Thank you
clear and understandable
The course was broken into relatable sections and although they didn't all apply to my current role they were of interest as overall knowledge and further understanding to be able to support colleagues within the organisation who do. The knowledge checks were useful and the relevant to the end assessment so that I was able to complete in one sitting.
It is okay
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Great course
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
I will feel safer now
This was a very interesting course to complete. I have had a problem at work in the past and it is good to see that I reacted in the correct way even though it is taking me a long time to recover from this incident. I will look at the additional resources as well which I feel may help me further. I am glad I have taken the time to complete this course.
patronising.
This user gave this course a rating of 1/5 stars
Why is this training important?
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
Under The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, employers and employees alike have a legal responsibility to consider their safety whilst at work.
Every employer shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of – (a) the risks to the health and safety of his employees to which they are exposed whilst they are at work; and (b) the risks to the health and safety of persons not in his employment arising out of or in connection with the conduct by him of his undertaking.
Every employer shall provide his employees with comprehensible and relevant information on –
(a) the risks to their health and safety identified by the assessment;
(b) the preventive and protective measures
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Frequently asked questions
Lone worker training teaches employees how to safely work alone. The course covers topics such as risk assessments, how to stay safe and what to do in an emergency.
A lone worker policy is created by an employer to help protect employees who are working alone. The goal of the policy is to promote a strong safety culture among lone working employees and sets out clear rules, employee obligations, and company stances.
Lone worker training is for anyone who works alone, whether that be in a single place of work, or out in the field. The course is designed to help employees stay safe when they are not working with anyone else. Common lone worker roles include community nurses, delivery drivers, sales reps, and more.
Our lone worker training course takes just 45 minutes to complete.