Name an owner and a deputy. Say who may stop or change work. Split human resources, health and safety, and operations. Record unresolved limitations and the person authorised to accept or correct them.
There is no standalone UK lone-working Act and no 2026 toolkit law. In Great Britain, implementation is how the employer discharges, so far as reasonably practicable, Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 section 2, and how it keeps a suitable and sufficient assessment live under Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 regulation 3.
Northern Ireland: Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000. Ireland: Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 section 19. INDG73 is guidance: train, supervise, monitor, support. Worker consultation belongs in the health and safety system. GPS, audio and dashboards can be worker monitoring. A data protection impact assessment sits before launch where required. This page is not legal advice. Use the legislation guide for statutes in more depth.
Stage 01 is risk, including whether lone work should happen at all. Cross-link dynamic risk assessment, violence, dogs on visits and safeguarding.
Identify who works alone, where they work, what foreseeable harm exists and where current controls are weak.
Manager check: Map roles, locations, visit types, out-of-hours work, signal gaps and current reporting arrangements.
Evidence: Risk profile, existing controls, worker groups and priority gaps are recorded before any supplier decision.
Choose external, internal or hybrid monitoring based on realistic responder availability and urgency.
Manager check: Confirm who receives each alert first, what happens if they do not answer and how out-of-hours escalation works.
Evidence: Monitoring responsibilities, escalation steps and responder availability are documented and understood.
Set user profiles, contacts, locations, task notes, escalation rules, test routes and management access.
Manager check: Build the system around real teams, live contact details, task notes, test arrangements and management permissions.
Evidence: User records, escalation contacts, test routes and manager access have been checked before launch.
Practise preparation, check-ins, concern-stage support, emergency activation, cancellation and post-incident reporting.
Manager check: Practise device checks, timed sessions, discreet activation, cancellation, false alarms and responder actions.
Evidence: Staff can explain when to use the system and managers can explain what happens after an alert.
Monitor false activations, missed check-ins, test calls, incident records, staff confidence and supplier performance.
Manager check: Review missed check-ins, incident reports, test history, false activations, training gaps and supplier performance.
Evidence: Findings lead to updated profiles, escalation instructions, refresher training or supplier challenge where needed.
Approve the risk profile, response model, privacy position, consultation, configuration, fallback, competence and go-live evidence. Weekly during early adoption: faults, unanswered contacts, carrying problems, false activations, missed tests.
Monthly: use, readiness, alarm handling and incidents by team. Event-driven: after a failed response, near miss, supplier change or official-guidance change. Annually: is lone work still necessary, and can prevention reduce how many people work alone?
Enough for cover if the owner is absent.
People, tasks, locations, risk groups, work periods and why different controls apply.
Alert routes, fallback, authority to stop work. Tests, incidents, actions, owners and completion evidence.
Downloadable tools: to follow. Align labels with the live downloads page before treating a file as approved.
A one-off supplier demonstration is not competence. This toolkit does not decide whether an arrangement satisfies legal duties.
Discuss Lone Worker Safety training for managers and staff who must use the arrangement under pressure.
Official sources used for this page
Source check 31 August 2026. Not legal advice.
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