Lone Working First Aid

It is Acadame accredited training rather than a regulated qualification, and that is deliberate. The value is in building it around your own lone working, which a fixed syllabus cannot do. Where you need a regulated qualification as well, Emergency First Aid at Work or First Aid at Work sit alongside it.

No. There is no general prohibition on working alone. Employers have to assess the risks of lone working and put controls in place, and for some activities lone working is not appropriate at all. The course covers where that line usually sits.

Under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations you have to assess the risk to anyone working alone, then train, supervise and monitor them, keep in touch and be able to respond to an incident. Where a lone worker is on someone else's site, you also have to ask that organisation what the risks are and what controls are in place.

The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 require every employer to provide equipment, facilities and trained people that are adequate and appropriate in the circumstances. Working alone changes what adequate looks like. HSE's own guidance on lone working, INDG73, puts it plainly: your risk assessment may indicate that some lone workers should carry first aid equipment and may need first aid training, including how to administer first aid to themselves.

Almost all first aid training assumes a second person is there. Someone to hold the airway, someone to call 999, someone to fetch the kit. Take that person away and the priorities change: what you can realistically do to yourself, how you raise the alarm before you lose the ability to, and which injuries mean stopping work immediately rather than finishing the job. That is what this session covers.

Anyone working without close or direct supervision. That covers fixed sites, such as a single person on a depot or a night shift, and mobile roles such as engineers, surveyors, drivers and care staff visiting homes. It is not limited to people who are physically alone all day.

Almost certainly. Your first aid needs assessment covers the whole organisation, and lone working is one part of it. This course addresses the specific gap that a conventional first aid course leaves; it does not replace the needs assessment.

Because it is built from your own lone working. We need to understand what your people do, where, and how long before anybody would notice something was wrong. A public course with twelve strangers from twelve different organisations cannot do that honestly.

Up to twelve on a session. For a mobile workforce we can run several sessions around shift patterns, and we will work around the fact that getting lone workers in the same room at the same time is itself the hard part.

We recommend refreshing every three years, and sooner if the work, the locations or the lone working arrangements change.

Yes, anywhere in the UK. For six or more people it is normally cheaper per head than sending everybody to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling. We work around your shift patterns.

At our centres in Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Manchester and Liverpool, at your own premises nationwide, and through our partner network where a local option suits you better. Pick a date from the board on this page or call 0330 124 2165.

QNUK, an Ofqual regulated awarding organisation. This one is Lone Working First Aid, accreditation number Acadame accredited. We are an approved QNUK centre.