Lone Working Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Workers offers practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice that will inform and enhance how you make decisions — and widen the conversations you have within your team about improving your personal safety systems.
The material has been specifically developed to provide workers in NHS trusts, social care departments, housing organisations, and charity organisations with advice that comprehensively addresses the safety needs of lone working in the community.
What’s Inside
Chapters cover topics such as:
- Lone worker safety devices
- Understanding aggression and fear
- Conflict triggers and tactics
- Receiving and broadcasting body language signals
- Reasonable force rules
The universal human phobia of interpersonal conflict.
About the Author
Gerard O’Dea is a conflict, personal safety, and physical interventions training consultant and Principal Trainer for Dynamis. Inspired by the challenges of what he calls “the universal human phobia of interpersonal conflict,” he has dedicated his career to investigating these topics and disseminating useful advice on preventing and managing aggression and violence.
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