Should organisations prioritise personal safety for lone workers? Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees. This act of parliament places a statutory duty on employers, besides their common law duty
Housing Officer Safety and Lone Working: Trust your instincts Gavin DeBecker, in his seminal work on personal safety “The Gift of Fear” offers us a crucial and often overlooked perspective on taking control of our safety. His key point, illustrated again and again in his examples and case studies, is that when our innate survival
Director of Training and Lone Working Staff Safety expert Gerard O’Dea discusses a key story about the tragic loss of a lone worker in the area of social care and home care. The issues of lone worker supervision, diary management, and monitoring of safety are crucial to the protection of lone workers and this
Doorstep-Decisions for Community team safety Community team safety Personal Safety often hinges on difficult decisions made on the doorstep. When approaching the front door of a previously violent client’s house, knowing some of their background and history and recent state, what threshold of danger would YOU set for the meeting you are about to have? Low Risk?
Past history of violent behaviour is the strongest predictor of future violence. I recall reading a news article in a sunday paper some time ago which described a reporter’s experiences while spending a weekend on the road with a London Ambulance Service (LAS) crew. Amongst descriptions of paramedics being shot and being shot-at, about the violence
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