Lone Worker Safety

Lone Worker Safety

This 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.

Working alone is a daily occurrence for almost 6 million people in the UK.

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

Course contents

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Preparing & Travelling
2. Responsibilities
3. Practical Safety Measures

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.

Available in 40 languages