Personal Safety

This course can also be combined with our Managing Aggressive Behaviour Course into one day, if time and budget are a concern.

Personal Safety Awareness Sample Content

* Identifying potential risky situations.

This introductory session allows delegates to talk about their work and identify the potential for personal safety risks such as home visits, attending meetings, travel by car, plane, train, taxi, bus, staying in hotels, reception work, working alone in a building, 1:1 interviewing etc.

* How to conduct a SAFE assessment.

This simple two minute process encourages delegates to spend a little time before a meeting, visit or journey assessing potential risks and then acting on their assessment by PLANNING for their safety

* Keeping yourself Safe when out and about.

Delegates will develop individual strategies for improving and ensuring their safety whist travelling or working out and about in the cpmmunity

* Working in other people's homes.

Developing safe working practices and safe escape strategies to keep yourself safe. We will review any lone worker systems the organisation may have in place and reinforce their importance or suggest improvements to be made.

* 1:1 meetings.

How to prepare your environment and conduct meetings safely. We will also review the panic alarm procedures.

* Reporting, recording and communicating incidents and concerns.

We will reinforce the importance of reporting all incidents of aggression, violence and near misses.

Methodology

The course is run in a lively interactive student-centred manner. There will be opportunities for delegates to interact with each other in a safe learning environment