Lone Working Risk Assessment Checklist (Hazard Report)
Lone workers can use this template to report any hazard present during their work shift. Simply do a site walkthrough, capture photos of findings and evidence of any risk that may affect safety, and assign actions to authorized personnel if these hazards would hinder you to continue working. Lastly, provide an overall risk rating.
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How to Use This Checklist
- **Walk the site.** The process starts with a site walkthrough, so you can capture what is actually present rather than relying on memory. The checklist is the tool for recording that walk in a consistent order.
- **Record the general details.** Complete when the checklist was conducted, who prepared it, the location, and a description of the tasks involved. These fields establish which shift and which job the findings belong to.
- **Identify the hazard and describe the risk.** For each finding, choose the hazard type from the available list — Physical, Biological, Organizational, Chemical, or Safety hazard — and describe the observed risk in your own words. Capture photos of the findings and of the evidence of any risk that may affect safety.
- **Ask whether the hazard stops you completing the work alone.** Record whether the hazard hinders you from finishing your work alone, choosing Yes, No, or N/A. A "yes" flags the point at which working alone may need to stop.
- **Assign actions to authorized personnel.** If a hazard would hinder you from continuing to work, assign actions to the people authorized to resolve it rather than leaving the finding unaddressed.
- **Provide an overall risk rating.** At the end, give an overall rating so the shift's risk level is captured in one figure you can compare against later assessments.
- **Sign and close out the record.** Capture the signature and finish time, along with the real start and end dates of the inspection, so the completed report reflects when the work was actually carried out.
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What a lone working risk assessment is
A lone working risk assessment is the process of identifying and recording the hazards present during a stretch of work that one person performs on their own. The checklist opens with an **Audit** and **General Details** section that captures when the assessment was conducted, who prepared it, where the work took place, and a description of the tasks involved. From there, the **Hazards and Risks** and **Hazard** sections give you a structured way to name each hazard, describe the risk, and judge whether it stops you from completing your work alone. The value of writing it down is that lone work removes the informal checks — a colleague noticing something wrong, a passing conversation — that normally catch problems. What the checklist records is the site walkthrough, the observed risks you find, photos of the findings and the evidence behind them, and an overall risk rating for the shift. That record is what lets someone else pick up the same shift and know what was already assessed.
What a good lone working assessment covers
The checklist's sections give you the topics to cover. **General details** - The date the assessment was conducted - Who prepared it - The location - A description of the tasks involved - Any instructions that apply to the shift **Hazards and risks** - The type of hazard, chosen from **Physical**, **Biological**, **Organizational**, **Chemical**, and **Safety hazard** - A description of the observed risk - Whether the hazard hinders you from finishing your work alone **Hazard** - Photos of the findings and the evidence of any risk that may affect safety - Actions assigned to authorized personnel - The signature and finish time, alongside the real start and end dates of the inspection
Carrying out the assessment
**1. Walk through the site and record the general details of the shift.** The checklist is designed to be filled in as you go, so the walkthrough and the record happen together rather than being reconstructed later. **2. Identify each hazard and describe the risk.** Choose the hazard type from the list and describe the observed risk in plain terms. Photograph the finding and the evidence behind it, so a reviewer can see what you saw. The photos are the difference between a hazard being accepted and being questioned on the basis of memory alone. **3. Decide whether the hazard hinders you from completing the work alone.** Select **Yes**, **No** for hazards that can be managed, or **N/A** for those that do not change your ability to work independently. A **Yes** signals that working alone may need to stop until the risk is addressed. **4. Assign actions to the people authorized to act on them.** If a hazard would hinder you from continuing to work, route it to authorized personnel rather than recording it and moving on. You can capture the overall risk rating at this stage. **5. Sign off and record the key timings.** The signature, finish time, and the real start and end dates of the inspection confirm when the assessment actually happened — the details that let later reviewers understand what the shift covered.
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