This Lone Working Awareness online training course raises awareness of the dangers associated with working alone and the practical steps that can be taken to minimise and control the risks that it presents.
The course covers why you need to know about working alone, what lone working is, applicable legislation, the key responsibilities of employers and employees, the main hazards, assessing the risk and safe working arrangements.
If you employ or manage someone who is required to work in isolation from others or without direct supervision, then it’s essential that the risks to their health and safety are carefully managed. Lone workers face specific risks that employees in busy workplaces are less likely to encounter so it’s important that they are identified early and effectively controlled.
This course will provide you with a variety of practical controls that you can implement in your work environment to help keep lone workers safe from harm.
Module 1 – Aims and learning outcomes
- Why you need to know about lone working
- The course aims and learning outcomes
Module 2 – Introduction
- What is lone working?
- Key legislation that relates to lone working
- Key responsibilities of employers
- Key responsibilities of employees
Module 3 – How lone workers may be at risk
- The key dangers that lone workers face
- Aggression and violence
Module 4 – Assessing the risk
- What risk assessment is
- The stages in a risk assessment
Module 5 – Safe working arrangements
- Assessing the risk to lone workers
- Implementing a lone worker policy
- Planning work to minimise risk
- Training and competence
- Protecting individuals that work alone
- Communicating and supervising
- Travelling or working at remote locations
- Avoiding confrontation with an aggressor
- Having emergency arrangements
- Reporting and investigating incidents
Within an initial workplace gap analysis, the following areas are reviewed (if applicable):
- General Safety Requirements
- Safety Management Systems
- Risk Assessments
- COSHH Assessments
- Asbestos
- Maintenance
- Training
- Emergency Equipment and Procedures
- First Aid
- Welfare
| - Noise
- Working at Height
- Site Traffic
- Company Vehicles
- Meeting the Public
- Confined Space
- Accident/Incident Investigation
- Lone Workers
- Personal Protection Equipment
- Display Screen Equipment
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Can you answer No to any of these questions?
| Â | Â Yes | Â No |
| Â Do you comply with H&S at Work Act and Management of H&S Regs? | Â | Â |
| Â Do you have a Safety Management System? | Â | Â |
| Â Do you have Risk Assessments? | Â | Â |
| Â Do you have COSHH assessments? | Â | Â |
| Â Is all your equipment tested & maintained? | Â | Â |
| Â Do you have Fire and other emergency procedures? | Â | Â |
| Â Do all your staff have basic safety awareness training? | Â | Â |
| Â Do you have Risk Assessments in place and do you review them regularly? | Â | Â |
Call us on (0114) 253 7222 to discuss how we can help, or email enquiries@safecaretraining.com for more details.
