Local Authority failure in Lone Working linked to assault and £100k fine in HSE Prosecution
Lone Social Worker team assaulted and Local authority fined £100k A local authority has been fined after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 3 July 2015, two social workers employed by London Borough of Brent […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers Sometimes means making sure that they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead and how many people should go. Sometimes, client history means no visit. In a rough-cut from a recent course where we were Training Lone Workers, our Director of Training and expert on personal safety Gerard O’Dea describes the […]
Lone Working Staff Safety through Supervision and Monitoring
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 […]
Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who had issued threats to her – but the information was never shared by […]