Lone working for staff - CPD accredited

Do you have colleagues who can see and hear what you are doing and can respond to a request from you for support? If the answer is ‘no’, you are a lone worker and it is important that you are able to play your part in ensuring you operate in a safe and effective way.

This course is for all staff who regularly or periodically work alone and who need to develop an awareness of their safety both in and out of the office and the skills required to ensure it.

Online assessment included.

Module 1: Prepare for and manage a lone working visit

Module 2: How to undertake a risk assessment

Module 3: Personal safety

This lone working course focuses on:

This lone working for staff course focuses on:

• Understanding what is meant by lone working
• The key responsibilities that you and your employer have
• Knowing the key features of your organisation’s protocols and procedures and the importance of ensuring compliance with them
• Identifying potential risks and how these should be managed
• Personal protection techniques to manage your safety
• Knowing how to manage difficult situations.

CPD Certificate

Digital certificate - Included

Summary

This is an online course, if you order through Reed (This site) you will receive an email confirming your booking. Once we receive notification from Reed, we will email you a link with instructions to create your account and a redeem code to enter which will unlock your chosen course.

The training is accessed through a web browser, there will be a learner file which you can download and complete as you progress through the course. If you need tutor support you can click on the envelope icon (on the course) and email your question to the tutor.

How it works

The key topics for this course have been broken down into lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject. Each one has clearly set learning outcomes and assessment criteria.

You can progress through the course at your own pace. If you need to leave the course, it will remember where you left off, so when you return there is no need to repeat steps. We often include external links, videos, webpages, downloads, which provide excellent resource files.

At the end of each lesson is a knowledge checkpoint, you will need to achieve more than 75% to pass the lesson, which then unlocks the following lesson. Upon completion of the final lesson your CPD certificate will be unlocked. You can save this as a PDF to your computer or simply print it off.

When

The course is self-paced so you decide at what pace the training goes. You will have 12 months access to the course and can revisit it as many times as you need.

CPD

The content of this course has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.

This course is for all staff who regularly or periodically work alone and who need to develop an awareness of their safety both in and out of the office and the skills required to ensure it.

No prior knowledge is required.

If you are a lone worker then this course will enable you to operate in a safe and effective way providing you with the skills required to do so. This can lead to better working practices which can support a promotion, further opportunities, improvement in skills and knowledge and transferable skills for development in other roles.

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