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Lone Working Out the Workplace - Lone Worker Training
This CPD and RoSPA approved Lone Workers Training is a concise health and safety course that helps professionals increase their everyday safety when working alone or away from a fixed workplace. The course covers planning, defusion tactics and Buddy Systems.
This health and safety programme has been designed to help increase personal safety during a working day. It has particularly been designed for people who work alone, away from a fixed workplace and away from co-workers.
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 give you a good grounding in appropriate measures to ensure your personal safety: It looks at increasing observation and awareness of both your surroundings and the behaviour of those around you; building preparation into your daily routine and providing strategies to avoid threatening situations. Lone Working Out the Workplace Training also looks at what to do if things go wrong and covers how to effectively use buddy and tracing systems.
If you are a lone worker but work alone in a fixed place at work, you might find our Lone Working IN the Workplace Training more relevant.
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.
Alternative languages available. Check our translation page if you require an alternative language.
Key features
- Complete this course online in just 35 minutes
- CPD accredited & RoSPA approved training course
- Suitable for all levels of staff and management
- Personal Safety Risk Assessment included
- End of course test and printable certificate
- Free trial, online demo and bulk discounts available
- Course translations readily available!
Covered in this course
The Lone Working Out the Workplace - Lone Worker Training course is broken down into 4 sections.
1) What is Personal Safety?
In this section we cover who is at risk and why; and 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.
2) Practical Planning
This section covers the practicalities of getting where you are going. It includes making sure you are properly prepared – such as checking the battery in your mobile phone before you leave. It covers getting ‘there’ on foot, by car, using public transport, taxi and then what to do on arrival to stay safe.
3) Staying in control
This section is about being aware of the other person, 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 also shows ways to escape, including using personal alarms. Finally it explains how to report an incident.
4) Buddy Systems
When your work takes you away from a fixed base, for example making a home visit, there should be a system in place so that someone always knows the details of your visit - who you're going to see, where and when you're going and when you're likely to be back. This is known as a tracing system or buddy system.
In this section we look at buddy systems and tracing systems and information that needs to be kept on file.
This section also includes a personal safety risk assessment which is your checklist to make sure that everything possible has been done to ensure you will be as safe as you can be on external visits. Your answers will highlight potential problems and can be used by your managers and safety representatives to improve your safety at work.
Lone Working Certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Lone Worker Training - Lone Working OUT 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 OUT of the Workplace Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and all relevant approvals.
Real user reviews
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excellent learning tool for new workers
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Easy to use, good advice
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Excellent - clear & accessible
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Very good training, all very relevant.
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Excellent for awareness
Useful helpful and well put together!
Informative refresher
The course was a good refresher; I have studied lone working safety through a book I purchased by Pauline Bibby "Personal Safety for Social Workers" but the course helped bring important points to the forefront of my mind. Was very relevant and easy to understand. Thanks.
informative
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Interesting, informative,
This course was very informative and prepares the employee to be mindful of the potential dangers that could arise as a lone worker. It informs the employee never to assume every situation is going to be safe. It made me question my current role and review the safety measures I need to take or put in place to ensure my safety at all times.
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Legislations relating to Lone Working
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. Take a look at relevant legislation below.
There are two main sets of legislation which apply to Lone Workers: The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 puts a duty of care on employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of their employees whilst they are at work. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 state that employers must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks their workers are exposed to:
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.
Employers have a duty to assess risks to lone workers and take steps to avoid or control risks where necessary
For those who regularly work alone outside of their workplace, being able to perform risk assessments and having the correct training are especially important in order to ensure continued personal safety. This applies to professional roles such as Salespeople who travel, Delivery Drivers, Surveyors, Journalists, Health and Social Care Workers and many others besides.
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
For additional practical guidance when it comes to applying Health and Safety principles to Lone Workers, see the HSE Publication Working Alone: Health and Safety Guidance on the Risks of Lone Working.