What is Personal Safety?
What is Personal Safety? Essential Tips for Protecting Yourself In today’s fast-paced world, an increasingly interconnected world, personal safety has become important than ever before. Ensuring personal safety is all about taking proactive steps to protect yourself from physical emotional and digital threats. As you navigate daily life whether at home or in public spaces […]
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Can Breakaway Techniques Be Used by Anyone? The Importance of Proper Training
Can Breakaway Techniques Be Used by Anyone? Breakaway techniques are important self-defense methods designed to help you escape from physical grabs or holds. The techniques are commonly used in different contexts like self-defense scenarios, healthcare settings where you might face aggressive behavior and other professional environments where the potential for physical confirmations exists. Understanding and […]
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Key Considerations When Selecting Lone Worker Protection
LONE WORKER MONITORING What are the key considerations for an organisation when selecting Lone Worker protection for their staff? The driving force should always be ensuring that the chosen product is fit for purpose for all staff, in whatever job role. Small organisations may find that one type of lone worker device suits all lone [...] Read more
Bullying & Harassment at Work Legislation
Any organization, has a legal duty to provide a safe working environment and that includes an environment free from bullying and harassment. If they fail to prevent or manage these behaviours, then a claim may be made for legal redress. It is clear that employees who suffer from bullying or harassment in the workplace now […]
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How to Manage Bullying & Harassment At Work
Manager Responsibilities All managers have a duty to establish and maintain a working environment free from harassment and bullying, by setting behavioural standards and modelling appropriate behaviour. A failure by a manager to implement this Policy, or deal appropriately with harassment or bullying could in itself lead to disciplinary action. Any manager who receives a […]
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Being Bullied At Work?
If you feel you are being singled out or bullied at work, you should not have to put up with it. There are steps you can take. First, speak to the bully. A direct approach is usually the best. Work out what to say beforehand. Describe what has been happening and why you object to [...] Read more
How To Defuse Anger
HOW TO DEFUSE ANGER Dealing with aggressive behaviour The aim of staff response in intervening in an aggressive conflict is to facilitate a safe resolution of an incident, to minimise the arousal of the aggressor, to aid in the exploration of underlying emotions and problem solving and finally to maximise the opportunities for new learning. […]
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Personal Safety Advice
PERSONAL SAFETY ADVICE Consider carrying out your own dynamic assessment of risk before undertaking any work activity. This should include, as a basic minimum, consideration of the following: Do you know where your work location is? Is there a generic assessment for the task? Do you have the protective equipment you may need? Do you […]
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