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Lone Working In the Workplace - Lone Worker Training
This RoSPA approved & CPD accredited Lone Worker Training is an essential e-learning course that helps Lone Workers within a workplace to increase their safety every day; by planning ahead, recognising aggression and learning how to use diffusion tactics.
4.2/5 based on 370 real user reviews
Learning outcomes
- Learn about personal safety and how practical planning is important
- Understand and work towards compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Learn how to stay in control of difficult situations where you might experience aggression
Covered in this course
Course contents
This training course is broken down into 4 sections
- 1 What is Personal Safety?
- 2 Practical Planning
- 3 Staying in control in difficult situations
- 4 Working alone
SECTION 1
In this section we cover who is at risk and why lone workers are more likely to be at risk. Who is responsible for safety during a working day? It looks at the importance of preparing for a visit and talks about trusting your instincts when you think something is wrong.
SECTION 2
This section covers the practicalities of getting where you are going. It includes making sure you are properly prepared – such as checking the ammount of battery in your mobile phone. It covers getting ‘there’ on foot, by car, using public transport, taxi and then what to do on arrival to stay safe.
SECTION 3
This section is about being aware of the other person or people, recognising the signs of aggression early, defusing trouble and keeping control of a situation. We use actors to play out scenarios, making it really clear and easy-to-understand what’s going on. This section will also include how to escape, personal alarms and how to report an incident.
SECTION 4
This is a simple-to-use interactive tool which can be used to create your own Risk Assessments. It uses short summary reminders from section 3 to help you fill out each column of the risk assessment form.
Your risk assessments are saved and can be accessed either from within this programme or directly through the LMS.
About this course
This health and 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 Working in the Workplace Training to be the perfect solution.
If your job requires you to work away from a fixed workplace, our Lone Working OUT OF the Workplace training may be more useful to you.
This eLearning course only provides awareness education. Face to face training would be needed in addition in order to complete all-round skills and knowledge to be able to carry this forward practically in your organisation.
Includes a free Lone Working Assessment Tool
Our Lone Working Assessment Tool allows lone workers to self-assess their working environments and provides a complete online management tool for swift and simple issue resolution. With our approved courses and assessment tool, keeping your lone workers safe and working towards compliance is simple!
Explore our Lone Working Assessment Tool
Presented by
Keith WickhamThe importance of Lone Working In the Workplace - Lone Worker 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 Working certificate
Download and print
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Lone Worker Training - Lone Working IN of the Workplace course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires 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 Working In the Workplace - Lone Worker 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.
370 real user reviews
Excellent
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Sensible advice
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
a good refresher
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Comprehensive and well presented course.
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. My perception of lone working was limited. This course has covered all of the areas relevant to lone-working and has equipped me with the tools necessary to function efficiently in the work place. Very well constructed and presented course and would therefore recommend this course to anyone who is interested.
very helpful!
This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Good
I did not expect such focus on the potential danger of other people. I expected focus on avoiding slips, trips and falls, and an increased caution to reduce the chance of this.
Not really suitable for our work place.
Not really suitable for our work place. It would be better to do a course that deals with lone working in the field or lab and not every day situations
Useful as a reminder for lone working
This user gave this course a rating of 4/5 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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