Workplace Safety

Overview

Prepare’s Workplace Safety Trainings provide skill-building opportunities for employees who work in high-risk settings at the office or in the field. Our clients include journalists in conflict zones, social workers and therapists conducting home visits on behalf of child or adult protective services, healthcare consultants, and legal and social services agencies. Trainings focus on boundary-setting, clear communication, verbal and physical safety skills, and allied behavior. These trainings have immediate applications in and out of the office. All workshops are customizable and include dynamic role-plays, group discussion, and individual rehearsal of concepts one-on-one with highly trained facilitators. Contact Us to learn more.

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Workplace Safety Training Program

9 – 16 Hours
16 – 20 Participants

The Comprehensive Workplace Safety Training guides participants through the practical application of safety concepts within the context of their work environment. Prepare helps employees build skills to accurately evaluate risk, tailor response levels based on variable factors, and adapt action steps as situations evolve. Trainings include verbal and physical resistance skills to help individuals in work and personal encounters and they help organizations build the foundation to further develop and codify company-wide safety plans and protocols.

Participants engage in custom problem-solving scenarios and role-play exercises to learn how to identify, assess, and manage uncomfortable and potentially harmful situations and to enact allied behavior on behalf of others. Included:

• THREAT ASSESSMENT – tools to identify pre-incident indicators and accurately read situations.
  
• WORKING AS A TEAM – skills to assess risk and build individual and organization action plans for incidents and debriefings.
  
• COMMUNICATION – practice boundary-setting and helping others.
  
• AGENCY, SKILLS, AND CAPACITY – rehearsals to manage the adrenaline response and emotional stress.
  
• THREAT MANAGEMENT – physical and verbal actions for unsafe situations.

Introductory Self-Defense and Personal Safety Workshop

3 Hours
$1500, Maximum 16 – 20 Participants

This workshop introduces participants to the key elements of assessing and managing threats, including threats while working in the field or traveling for work. This fully interactive and experiential workshop allows each person to practice:

• Reading and interpreting cues to danger – evaluating context, environment, and behavior.
  
• Creating, implementing and modifying action plans such as avoidance, escape, bystander activation and other means for accessing help from others, verbal self-advocacy and physical resistance.
  
• Clear communication with body language and nonverbal cues.
  
• Assertive verbal communication strategies.
  
• Distinguishing between instincts, bias, and stereotypes.
  
• Physical resistance strategies for physical and sexual assault.
  
• Managing adrenaline, stress, physical and emotional overwhelm.
• Considerations for bystander intervention and allyship.­

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