Safer Lone Working Programme
Learn how to reduce risks and increase personal safety when working alone.
This eLearning course is designed for frontline staff who may encounter conflict and behaviours of concern in their work. It has six modules and an estimated completion time of 1 hour and 40 minutes but this will vary for each learner.
The two parts to this course map directly to the Maybo Accredited Programmes and can therefore be undertaken as part of a blended learning programme.
- Ensure compliance with Healthy and Safety Legislation
- Created by experts
- Can be completed as a fully online course or as part of a blended learning programme
- Approximate duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes
- Certificate upon completion
Who should take this course?
Quell’s Safer Lone Working Programme is designed for workers whose job role involves them working on their own all or some of their time at work. This can include security staff, receptionists and more.
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Objectives
Part One | Preventing Conflict and Reducing Risk (45m)
- Risks and vulnerabilities of lone working
- Risk reduction measures we can take to prepare for working alone
- Reducing risk when travelling alone
- Reduce risk when arriving at a premises
- Examples of workplace violence
- Rights and responsibilities
- Planning to reduce risk
- Instinctive reactions to emotional or threatening situations
- Potential triggers in self and others
- Levels of escalation
- Influencing positive outcomes
- Overcoming barriers to communication
Part Two | Safer De-escalation (55m)
outcome while maintaining personal safety.
- Maybo SAFER model
- Risk identification
- Informed decision-making
- Positive, non-aggressive approaches
- Safer positioning and teamworking skills
- Strategies to defuse, calm and resolve
- Responding to behaviours of concern
- Heightened risk indicators
- Exit strategies in higher-risk situations
- Post-event impact and responsibilities
Certificate of Completion
By completing/passing this course, you will attain a Quell / Maybo eLearning Certificate.