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Lone worker safety for line managers
Employers must manage the risks to lone workers. Be confident in spotting who in your team counts as a lone worker, setting up arrangements for lone workers and acting quickly when someone can’t be reached.
Last reviewed on 4 November 2026
This course covers how to:
- Recognise when someone you manage is working alone without close or direct supervision, even somewhere familiar, in the daytime, or doing something routine
- Identify what you need to have in place before and while someone works alone, and know how to check your school's own procedure for the detail
- Decide what to do, and who to contact, if someone working alone can’t be reached or needs help
- Decide when a task shouldn’t be done alone, and respond when someone you manage raises a concern about it
By law, employers must manage health and safety risks for lone workers. This course shows line managers how to put these requirements into practice.
This course is for people who manage staff who sometimes work alone, including:
- Premises and site staff
- School business managers and office staff
- Heads of department and phase leaders
- Senior leaders