Before seeking consent to lone work please consider the following;

  1. Do you really need to lone work? Can working practices be altered so as to avoid lone working?
  2. Has the risk assessment covering lone working been completed? You will be asked to provide this when applying for consent to lone work.
  3. Have you confirmed that the lone working activity is not prohibited either within the College Code of Practice or within your Faculty or Department?
  4. Where consent to lone work is required, it is essential that consent from your line manager/supervisor has been obtained. You must ensure that, where local procedures require it, consent from all others e.g. DSO or Head of Department, has also been obtained.
  5. All control measures identified within the lone working risk assessment must be in place before lone working begins, this includes the use of buddies, emergency contacts, lone working alarms or cameras.
  6. Please note that you will have access to Lone Working Application only if you are a staff member or enrolled to one of these two programme levels: pg research and pg research occasional.

  7. Remember that you can use the "check-in timer" in the SafeZone app as a control measure. If you set up the timer and do not respond when prompted, a signal will be sent to Security, who will give you a call to check you are OK. If you do not answer their call, Security will come to physically check on you. 


Guidance notes for filling in the form

Apply for consent to lone work