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 those who held it.
https://youtu.be/nAru-rxPfPk
Gerard O'Dea is a professional violence-management trainer/consultant who has been active in Keeping Lone Workers Safe since 2006. He regularly delivers training to local authority, housing organisation and other community-based staff teams who work with sometimes difficult, distressed or dangerous members of the public. His approach to lone-worker training is pragmatic, functional and based on a keen analysis of the issues in the real world of community working. Gerard published "Lone Worker Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Staff" (on Amazon in Paperback and on Kindle) in 2014. For more information please visit: https://www.dynamis.training/lone-worker-personal-safety/
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