Best lone worker apps in the UK
What are the best lone worker apps in the UK? This article reviews the top five lone worker solutions and ranks them on their apps, wearable devices, alarm receiving centres, staff management and cost.
Safepoint’s Health and Safety and Lone Working Blog
Browse a wide selection of informative articles on lone working, health and safety, sector safety, and more!
What are alarm receiving centres?
An alarm receiving centre (ARC for short) is a facility that receives and processes alarms. These alarms may be triggered due to a system detecting intruders, fires, injury, or some other risk to health or property.
FREE warehouse and storage safety posters
These free posters will not only act as helpful reminders to your warehouse workers, but will also help you create a culture of safety in your warehouse or storage facility.
FREE health and safety policy builder
A health and safety policy is a document composed by an employer stating the company’s commitment to upholding the health and safety of employees and to the public.
FREE lone working policy template
A lone working policy is a document that sets out your company’s rules, best practices and guidance for working alone. It will help new and existing staff understand the risks to them and their organisation when lone working.
The Safepoint risk assessment template
A risk assessment is a process of identifying, measuring and evaluating risk for individuals, organisations, assets and the environment as a result of a particular activity, role or undertaking.
What is lone working and how can you keep your lone workers safe?
22% of the UK working population are lone workers. A lone worker is simply someone who works by themselves without close or direct supervision. Find out everything you need to know about lone workers.
Lone working in councils and local authorities
Common risks affecting council employees might be aggression from clients, or accidental injuries in remote and high-risk areas. In these situations, it’s important that staff members have the right training, protection and support.
Hand washing health and safety (FREE posters!)
Hand washing plays a major role in keeping your team and your customers healthy. Frequent, correct hand washing can reduce the spread of germs and illnesses within your workplace.
Lone working in transportation
For those that drive for a living –whether it involves buses, vans, cars, HGVs, trains or even bikes– it may be completely unremarkable to work alone for hours on end.
Lone working in security
Health and safety is part of the job for people working in the security sector. In many cases, a security worker is working to protect people and property, but their own safety is also of vital importance.
Lone working in housing associations
Housing associations employ an estimated 148,000 people in the UK, many of whom are lone workers delivering essential services.
Lone working in social care
The social care sector employs a vast amount of lone workers in the UK. Whether working in care homes, community settings, or in the homes of their service users, care workers will often spend some or all of their workday alone, or in small teams.
Lone working in agriculture
The health and safety challenges facing lone workers in agriculture are many. That’s why we’ve built, what Farmers Weekly called, “A simple piece of software that can save lives”.
Lone working in Oil and Gas
An introduction to the oil and gas industry The oil and gas industry has long played an important role in the UK economy, helping power
Lone working in construction
An introduction to lone working in the construction sector The UK’s construction industry accounts for £110 billion of annual output and around 10% of all
Lone working in utilities
An introduction to the utility sector Water, gas and electricity organisations supply and maintain essential services for more than 28 million residential homes and businesses
Lone working in estate agencies
In introduction to estate agents and the housing market In 2021 The UK estate agent market was valued at around £11 billion . It also
Lone working in charities
An introduction to the charity sector As of December 2022, over 1.2 million people were employed by charities in England and Wales. For every one
Lone working in the forestry sector
An introduction to lone working in forestry As of 2022, it was estimated that there are 3.24 million hectares of woodland in the UK: 13%
