Healthcare

Violent abuse against healthcare workers in on the increase. Staff who work alone face a significantly increased risk of being attacked. This has been attributed to some of the following causes:

 
  • They do not have the immediate support of colleagues or others, should an incident occur.
     
  • Very often assaults take place in one to one situations with no way of evidencing the incident - evidence which could potentially support any action taken against alleged offenders.
     
  • This lack of evidence results in a reluctance by lone working staff to report incidents.
     
  • In accepting a 'culture of violence' towards lone working staff, victims can experience feelings of unworthiness, isolation and that nothing can or is being done to support them.
  Solutions :
 
 

IDProtect provides a visible deterrent that clearly demonstrates violence against staff will not be tolerated and any person who attacks staff will be prosecuted.

IDProtect helps in the detection of assaults by facilitating a way in which staff can confidently report an incident.

IDProtects 'Red Alert' activation function provides staff with a way to discreetly raise an alarm without further compromising their personal safety during an attack.

IDProtect allows more incidents to be investigated - as a direct result of more attacks being reported.

IDProtect provides organisations with additional information about the nature of attacks that can be used to support sanctions and redress on lone worker polices and procedures.

The PPS in conjunction with IDProtect, mobile phones and other personal device help to ensure that employers are meeting their ‘duty of care’ to their lone working staff.

The PPS provides the command and control centre back bone for all alerts received from personal devices.
 


Staff who are at increased risk of attack and who would benefit from IDProtect include:
 
 


Alcohol Detox Nurses
Care Assistants
Midwives
Paramedic Officers
Psychiatric Nurses
District Nurses
Domestics
Emergency Care Practitioners
General Practitioners
Health Visitors
Laboratory Staff
Occupational Therapists
Orthotist
Outreach Workers
Paediatric Nurses
Paramedics
Physiotherapists
Public Health Nurses
School Nurses
Security Staff