Personal Safety for Lone Workers Online Training

Lone working involves any work carried out by an individual who is by themselves and not under direct supervision. They perform their work in isolation without any face-to-face contact with other employees, and may only occasionally spend time at an organisation's workplace.

A lone worker may be someone who independently carries out tasks away from their employer’s workplace, such as a builder, an electrician, a gardener or certain healthcare professionals. The term also includes those who work remotely but can carry out their work from their home or another location without having to travel anywhere else.

Read more in our blog article here.

There are no direct laws that relate to lone working, but those who work alone are covered by the majority of employment laws when it comes to health and safety. Under The Health and Safety at Work Act (1974), all employers have a legal duty to ensure the safety of their employees whilst they’re at work, which includes ensuring that lone workers are as safe as possible whilst they're working without any supervision.

Lone workers have been classified as potentially at risk by HSE because they work independently and therefore do not have the security of being surrounded by others who can protect them or give them help when needed. There is a range of physical and mental risks presented by lone working, which we explain in this blog article.

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When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.

Once you have purchased a course, you will be able to send this course to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the new learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.

If you are not 100% satisfied with your course then we offer a 30-day, no hassle money-back guarantee. To request a refund, you should email our learner support team with your receipt stating why you would like to be reimbursed. You, or your learners, must not have completed the training in order to make a valid refund claim. Any claim made after the training has been completed will be invalidated.

This online course consists of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk learners through the lesson material. Pages may include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help learners stay engaged and interested in the material. Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be paused and resumed at any stage.

The course is self-paced so learners decide how fast or slow the training goes. There is no deadline for completion but some of our courses have a test at the end to check that learners have understood the material. If the course has a test at the end then learners are required to achieve a 75% pass mark to successfully complete the course. Once learners have passed the test they are awarded a certificate, which can either be downloaded digitally or sent as a physical copy if this option was chosen when purchasing the course.

Upon completion of any of our courses, learners will be able to download a digital certificate from Virtual College and will include the accrediting bodies logo where applicable.

If you have bought the posted certificate option (available on select courses), a high quality, seal embossed, certificate will be sent out at the beginning of the following working week.