Lone Worker Training
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Is it legal to work alone and is it safe?
Lone Working is not in itself against the law and it will often be safe to do so. However, the law requires employers to consider carefully, and then deal with, any health and safety risks for people working alone.
Employers are responsible for the health, safety and welfare at work of all their workers. They also have responsibility for the health and safety of any contractors or self-employed people doing work for them. These responsibilities cannot be transferred to any other person, including those people who conduct Lone working.
Lone Workers have responsibilities to take reasonable care of themselves and other people affected by their work activities and to co-operate with their employers in meeting their legal obligations.
How must employers control the risks?
Employers have a duty to assess risks to lone workers and take steps to avoid or control risks where necessary. This must include:
Aim of this Training Course
To provide an understanding of how to assess threat, risk and apply effective control measures to Lone worker staff who work by themselves without close or direct supervision tailored to your organisation or individual’s role.
Why this Training?
Outcomes
Who should attend:
Bespoke Delivery
We understand the demands on your business and offer bespoke ‘in house’ training package that fulfills your legal requirement. This course can be delivered:
Please contact us for further information
Lone Working is not in itself against the law and it will often be safe to do so. However, the law requires employers to consider carefully, and then deal with, any health and safety risks for people working alone.
Employers are responsible for the health, safety and welfare at work of all their workers. They also have responsibility for the health and safety of any contractors or self-employed people doing work for them. These responsibilities cannot be transferred to any other person, including those people who conduct Lone working.
Lone Workers have responsibilities to take reasonable care of themselves and other people affected by their work activities and to co-operate with their employers in meeting their legal obligations.
How must employers control the risks?
Employers have a duty to assess risks to lone workers and take steps to avoid or control risks where necessary. This must include:
- involving lone workers when considering potential risks and measures to control them;
- taking steps to ensure risks are removed where possible, or putting in place control measures, e.g. carefully selecting work equipment to ensure the worker is able to perform the required tasks in safety;
- instruction, training and supervision;
- reviewing risk assessments periodically or when there has been a significant change in working practice.
Aim of this Training Course
To provide an understanding of how to assess threat, risk and apply effective control measures to Lone worker staff who work by themselves without close or direct supervision tailored to your organisation or individual’s role.
Why this Training?
- Lone Worker Training is particularly important where there is limited supervision to control, guide and help in uncertain situations
- Training is crucial to reduce risk of injury and enable staff to react dynamically in assessing threat and risk to themselves and the environment
- It will give staff the confidence to cope in unexpected circumstances and with potential exposure to violence and aggression
Outcomes
- Understanding the legal requirements of lone working
- Identify risks in lone working situations within own specialist area
- Identifying and understanding stages of conflict escalation and resolution
- Assessing and identifying immediate threat and risk and applying control measures to ensure the safety and security of the lone worker
- Applying a model to conduct dynamic risk assessment in the workplace
- Identify and implement communication methods to reduce risk
- Understand how to handle aggressive and abusive behavior to reduce risk of compromise to personal safety.
- Applying Quality Assurance measures to Lone Worker Policy and Procedure
Who should attend:
- All Lone workers operating alone in a specialist area
- People working alone for long periods, e.g. in factories, warehouses, leisure centres
- Service workers, including postal staff, social and medical workers, engineers
- Workers involved in construction, maintenance and repair, plant installation and cleaning work
- Agricultural and forestry workers
- Estate agents, and sales or service representatives visiting domestic and commercial premises
- People working on their own outside normal hours, e.g. cleaners and security, maintenance or repair staff
- As mobile workers working away from their fixed base
Bespoke Delivery
We understand the demands on your business and offer bespoke ‘in house’ training package that fulfills your legal requirement. This course can be delivered:
- When you want and where you want them
- Costed per delivery rather than per delegate
- More cost-effective for your business
Please contact us for further information
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