It is estimated that there are between 123 and 205 assaults every day on lone workers in the United Kingdom alone. Under the Health & Safety Executive [HSE] your employer has specific duties under a duty of care to protect you, and provide with support and training, keeping in contact with you, preventing work-related violence. The course covers areas such as Inner, Middle and Outer Security Awareness, Principles of Personal Security, The Threat Pyramid, Psychology of Conflict, Adrenal Response Mechanism – Behavioural Alarm Response [ARM-BAR] and much more.
While the Office for National Statistics doesn’t have a definition for “lone worker”, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) defines Lone workers as anyone who “works by themselves without close or direct supervision”. So, if you work from home one day a week, you’re a lone worker (one day a week) without even knowing it. Similarly, many people who work without direct supervision are also lone workers, for example:
Any situation in which someone works without a colleague nearby or when someone is working out of sight or earshot of another colleague. Lone-working is predominant in some industries. Here are a few examples:
Persons, such as care workers, estate agents, social workers, anyone whose work role often involves them working alone in environments where the potential for them to come into harm from a third-party is a reality.
The course lasts for approximately 2 to 2.5 hours depending on the learner’s abilities and reading speed. However, you can enter and exit this course as often as you require.
This course is delivered using interactive Learning Management System (LMS). Students follow easy on-screen instructions to progress through the course. The program contains text, still photographs, and animations. The course is delivered 100% online.
This course is fully approved by the CPD Accreditation Group which is an internationally recognised certification. Learners will receive an electronic copy of the official course certificate in PDF format upon successful completion of the course via the eLearning system.
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