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Managing Personal Safety at Work seminar
Do you or your staff have concerns about personal safety at work? Have you a policy and risk assessment on dealing with aggressive or violent clients? Do you have staff working off site, meeting clients out of the office, meeting in remote areas or working alone in the office? As the dark nights draw in staff are now faced with different working/traveling conditions, making personal safety at the very forefront of your staff concerns.
Rutledge Joblink is running a bite sized 3 hour seminar to help inform directors or company managers, human resource managers, policy makers, personnel managers or department managers on the issues relating to personal safety in the workplace. Delegates will be attending from a variety of sectors including government agencies, estate agents, solicitors, community groups, financial services, construction, retail and educational bodies
This highly successful seminar session will help you start to understand the issues of personal safety, how to develop simple techniques in improving safety for staff and give you starter points on how to draw up policies to help assist your organisationto minimize violence and aggression in the workplace, in particular this seminar will be aimed at those companies which involve lone working.
Not only will you be improving your staff safety by attending the seminar, but you will also be meeting your legal requirements in minimising risks in the work place.
The seminar will include
1) Introduction to Personal Safety
- The Personal Safety Approach
- The costs of violence & aggression at work
- The benefits of improving personal safety at work
- identifying risks at work
- The Safe Person Concept
2) Working Alone
- Good practice guidelines including safe travel tips.
- managing the lone worker
3) Personal Safety Skills Training
- Is there a Problem? - forms & effects of aggression
- Impressions Count - triggers to aggression
- Listen to yourself - the purpose & function of fear
- Workplace Rights & Responsibilities - guidelines
- Working with others - safe communication skills
4) Planning for Safety
- The employer’s statutory duties
- The need for PROMPT Action
- developing the Personal Safety Programme
Dates/Venue: Omagh Community House, Friday, December 1st 2006 and the same seminar will run again on Friday, January 26th 2007, places are limited to 25 delegates with tea/coffee and lunch provided. The session will start at 10 a.m until 1 p.m, with the opportunity to discuss your personal safety concerns with trained staff after the event.
Cost: The cost of the seminar is £85 + Vat per delegate or only £75 + Vat for Chamber of commerce members. If you are from a charitable organisation the cost of the course is only £50 + Vat.
“If you are to attend one training course in the next 12 months, make sure this is the one you attend! Not only will you and your company benefit, but also the safety of the staff under your care will dramatically improve”
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If you have any further questions about the seminar, please do not hesitate to contact Nathan Flatman, Branch Manager, Rutledge Joblink on 028 8224 0999.
