Personal Safety for Social Workers and Health Professionals by Brian Atkins

Author:Brian Atkins [Atkins, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781909330351
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Publisher: Critical Publishing
Published: 2013-05-27T00:00:00+00:00

Key learning points

»Promoting safe practice for staff will enable workers to perform better in their protective function, and also improve the performance of the whole service.

»Systemic job design will help ensure that staff have the necessary support, resources and training to conduct their work safely and effectively.

»Supervision is the key to effective support of staff, including risk management (see supervisor checklist).

»Employers have a statutory duty of care to their staff, and should be compliant with the relevant standards.

»Employers should provide appropriate training in staff safety.

»Employers should conduct a self-audit to assess their effectiveness in safe working practice (see Task Force document).

»Multi-agency working in hostile situations should be carefully planned and supervised on a joint agency basis.

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