Working AlonePrecautions when nobody else is present, at home or outdoors.Practical skillsEducational reference. Applies to DIY, outdoor activity and lone travel alike.BeforeTell someone the task and the expected finish timeAgree a check-inPhone charged and on you, not in another roomConsider whether it is a two-person jobAvoid aloneWorking at heightAnything involving electricity or gasHeavy liftingWorking over or near waterConfined spacesIf injuredStay still and assessCall for help before movingEmergency services can locate a mobileEducational reference. The task that most often goes wrong alone is aquick job on a ladder that seemed too small to need help.Working Alonelearnposters.com
Working Alone — printable life skills wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Working Alone poster

12 entries in 3 groups.

Educational reference. Applies to DIY, outdoor activity and lone travel alike.

Educational reference. The task that most often goes wrong alone is a quick job on a ladder that seemed too small to need help.

Questions about the Working Alone poster

What’s on the Working Alone poster?
12 entries in 3 groups. Educational reference. Applies to DIY, outdoor activity and lone travel alike. Before: Tell someone the task and the expected finish time, Agree a check-in, Phone c…; Avoid alone: Working at height, Anything involving electricity or gas, Heavy lifting,…; If injured: Stay still and assess, Call for help before moving, Emergency services ca…. Educational reference. The task that most often goes wrong alone is a quick job on a ladder that seemed too small to need help.
Who is the Working Alone poster for?
Working Alone belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning safety can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Working Alone poster?
Tell someone what you are doing and when you expect to finish. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Working Alone belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Working Alone?
Carbon Monoxide, Household Chemicals and Child Safety at Home sit alongside Working Alone in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Carbon MonoxideHousehold ChemicalsChild Safety at Home
Is the Working Alone poster free to download and print?
Yes. Working Alone downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Working Alone poster print at?
Working Alone is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Working Alone loses nothing.Printing guide

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