Working Alone Safety Training

Working alone safety training is frequently purchased before anyone has established who in the organisation actually works alone. The assessment is quick and it usually finds more people than expected.

The obvious ones are known. Field staff, community and home care workers, remote site technicians, drivers.

The ones missed are the intermittent cases. The person who opens the site an hour before anyone else. The last one to lock up. Someone doing a stocktake on a Sunday. A cleaner after hours. A manager who stays late alone in a building with no reception.

Each of those is isolated work, and none appears in a job description. Training assigned only to the obvious roles leaves the intermittent group entirely uncovered, and they are the ones with no procedure and no check-in because nobody thought of them.

Map it by task and time of day, not by role.

Safe Work Australia covers remote and isolated work. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.

See Sentrient’s risk management system and working alone course.