| Personal Safety Isolation Illness Car Breakdown Accident Conflict Assault Theft |
ICare staff will: Ensure that ICare have up to date personal contact details, notifying ICare of any changes. Carry out their work duties within the timescales set out on their weekly time sheets. Carry a mobile phone so that they can summon help quickly. Ensure that their phones include an emergency number which is attended when they are working. Log an emergency number in their phone under the name 'ICE'. Ensure their mobile phone is charged and has adequate credit. Report unsafe environments to their Supervisor / Office. Take steps to avoid isolated and poorly lit areas. Take steps to avoid dark, unlit, isolated routes to work if on foot. Park their car in a well lit public place, where possible. |
ICare will: Ensure that all care and support staff are given a handbook containing information on personal safety. Ensure that all care and support staff are given a copy of the Lone Working Risk Assessment and have read, understood and signed this document. Provide advice and guidance, within the training, about personal security procedures. Ensure that Field Care Supervisors are satisfied that care and support staff are safe to work alone and that they are clear about how to act in ways that will maximise their own safety and about what to do in an emergency. Ensure that all care and support staff know who their Field Care Supervisor is and have their phone number logged in their mobile phone. |