A practical risk assessment template for lone working situations, covering the requirements of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and HSE guidance on lone workers. Ready to adapt for your operation.
UK health and safety law requires employers to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for all work activities, including lone working. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 set out this obligation, and the HSE's guidance document INDG73 provides the practical standard against which compliance is typically assessed.
The risk assessment needs to identify the specific hazards faced by lone workers in your operation, assess the likelihood and severity of harm, and identify the control measures that will be put in place. It needs to be documented and reviewed when circumstances change.
The control measures for lone working typically centre on monitoring and communication. Workers need a way to confirm they are safe at regular intervals, and supervisors need a system that alerts them immediately if a check-in is missed. The frequency of check-ins should be driven by the risk level identified in the assessment, not by a generic policy.
This template includes a check-in frequency guide that maps risk levels to appropriate intervals, which you can adapt to your specific roles and locations.
The template is designed to be completed for each role type and site type in your operation. A security guard doing night patrols in an isolated industrial estate has different risk factors to a cleaning operative in a low-rise office building during the evening. Both need a risk assessment, but the control measures will differ.
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