Many people have jobs where they are required to work alone and without direct supervision. This absence of immediate help or assistance creates significant risk. This course introduces the learner to the potential hazards faced by lone workers. It then considers whose responsibility it is to reduce or remove the risks associated with these hazards and, in overview, how this is done.

Every year, around 50 people are killed in accidents involving workplace transport, with such accidents also causing more than 1500 major injuries and about 3500 less serious injuries each year.

Many people have jobs where they are required to work alone and without direct supervision. This absence of immediate help or assistance creates significant risk because of the ever-present prospect of accidental injury or violence and aggression - the latter, for some occupations, being accompanied by the added risk of robbery or other crime.

Bullying is responsible for 30% - 50% of all stress-related illness in the workplace and costs employers up to £2 billion in lost revenue every year.

This course will enable learners to identify the causes of pollution and waste, minimise negative impacts to the environment and enhance the health and functioning of ecosystems where they live.

Having completed this course the learner will feel competent and able to conduct risk assessments effectively and to appropriate standards.

This course is a first important step in educating staff on what causes RSI, and how to avoid it.

This course, based on HSE Guidance HSG136, is designed to enable those working with or near vehicles to meet this requirement – and to ensure they don’t become a health and safety statistic!

This course is a crucial first step in making the workplace safer, and creating accident-related cost-savings for the learner’s organisation.

Accidents occur across a broad range of industries, and rescuers operating without proper training or equipment are frequently among the victims.