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

  • Health & Safety
  • 40 languages
  • 45m

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. 1
    Preparing & Travelling
  2. 2
    Responsibilities
  3. 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.

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The 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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Available in 40 languages

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Our most popular languages

Italian
German
Romanian
French
Polish
Lithuanian

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.

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Important information

Strategies to keep safe when lone working

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.

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Section 3 (1)

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

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Section 10 (1)

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