Introduction to Personal Safety for Lone Workers

6 Lessons

1 hour 3 mins

Complexity : Easy

Personal Safety Awareness: Understand the importance of personal safety, especially for lone workers, emphasizing the need for awareness and preparedness. Your safety should always be your top priority.

Risk Identification and Evaluation: Acquire the skills to identify and evaluate hazards in your workplace, streamlining the process with practical resources for recognizing and understanding potential risks, enhancing your personal safety through thorough risk assessment.

Effective Communication Techniques: Learn communication techniques tailored for remote workers, emphasizing the importance of connectivity in maintaining personal safety. This module provides easy-to-use yet effective communication tools to improve overall safety.

Emergency Response for Lone Workers: Be prepared for emergencies with this module on emergency response, emphasizing the importance of having an action plan. Create an emergency response plan focused on your safety in unforeseen circumstances or medical emergencies.

Self-Defense Techniques: Arm yourself with basic self-defense strategies for lone workers, offering easy-to-use yet effective techniques in the event of physical harm. Being personally safe means being prepared for anything.

Lessons

Brief Description of Introduction to Personal Safety for Lone Workers
Easy
2 mins

The "Introduction to Personal Safety for Lone Workers" course is tailored to educate individuals who work alone on essential safety practices. Participants learn about potential risks and hazards associated with lone working, as well as strategies to mitigate those risks.
Module 2: The Law: Responsibilities
Easy
11 mins

Module 2 covers the laws and duties of employers and employees regarding loan workers. Employers must ensure staff health, safety, and welfare by following the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act
Module 3: Assessing the Risks
Easy
13 mins

This Module discusses risk assessment for loan workers, who may face higher risks from public violence, theft, accidents, sudden illness, fire risks, inadequate hygiene, rest, and welfare facilities, and social isolation.
Module 4: Personal Safety Solutions
Easy
13 mins

This module discusses real World Safety solutions, focusing on the development of security ideas through lone workers' experiences, external sources like HSE, Susie Lamp Trust, police.
Module 5: Practical Tips to Avoid Conflict
Easy
12 mins

Module five discusses avoiding conflict in the workplace, including delivering bad news or enforcing laws. To avoid violence, lone workers should assess response and cooperation levels, gather information, and check for history of abuse.
Module 6: Reporting and Recording Incidents
Easy
12 mins

Module 6 focuses on reporting and recording accidents and violent situations. Accident report forms should be filled out for all incidents, allowing management to assess and track the problem's scope.