You Can Be Safe While Working In the Community
Do you work in the community, and have concerns for your safety?
We often hear about workplace safety. But often the focus is on the physical workplace.
But for many people, healthcare professionals, social workers, real estate agents, utility workers, education professionals, and many others, your work takes you out into the community and into other people's homes.
So how do you stay safe while working in the community so that you can continue to help other people?
In this video, we cover the four key components of being safe while working in the community. They're based on the 30+ years I spent working as a litigation investigator, conducting witness interviews in some of our nation's most dangerous areas. Typically, I walked up unannounced to a total stranger's home, in order to interview them about something traumatic that they had witnessed. I did this 1000s of times.
Here's what you'll learn:
- How to read and assess for safety risks the environment around you and the people within it so that you can AVOID a physical attack. This includes both when you're out in public areas, and also when you are working inside someone's home.
- How to engage with an agitated, angry, or aggrieved person to help de-escalate the situation so that it doesn't lead to a physical attack. There are a variety of approaches you can use, including reflective listening, and body language that help take a person amping up towards an attack, and get them to calm down.
- How to take the initial advantage away from a person that launches a physical attack through a variety of approaches to change the dynamics of that attack that forces the attacker to recalibrate his attack. so that you can survive the initial onslaught.
- And finally, how to defend yourself, so that you can quickly and safely exit from an attack. Defense techniques must be basic and simple to execute, by anyone regardless of size in order to be effective.
If you want to learn more about keeping yourself safe while you're working in the community, check out my FREE personal safety guide. It's got excellent tips that can really help you reduce the risk of being attacked. Download the guide here.
