Practical Strategies to Increase Your Personal Safety While Doing Fieldwork
Have you ever been harmed or threatened, or felt unsafe while doing your work out in the field/community? Did you know what to do, or how to prevent it from happening again?
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Course Information
- Audience: Community health workers and all public health professionals
- Format: Webinar
- Date/Time: October 15, 2019
12:00 - 1:00 PM EST - Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 0. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_PSIYPS
If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. - Competencies: Community Partnership Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings: None
- Supplemental materials:Session PowerPoint, stress management techniques hand-outs
- Pre-requisites:None
About this Webinar
This webinar will provide practical tips and strategies for improved threat awareness and self-protection during field work, focused on workplace violence risk. Quick, effective stress management techniques, such as specialized breathing will also be provided. These tools can aid in increasing awareness and safety as well as de-escalation.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- List 2 strategies for improved hazard awareness in the field
- List 2 strategies for maintaining your personal safety in the field
- List 2 self-practice techniques for stress management
Subject Matter Expert
Hilary Hackbart
Hilary Hackbart works for the MA Department of Labor Standards in the Workplace Safety and Health for Public Sector Employees program. She has worked extensively on the development of occupational health and safety management systems, has conducted hundreds of on-site workplace health and safety assessments, and has trained thousands of workers on a wide range of health and safety topics, including workplace violence prevention. She holds a BA in Biochemistry from Harvard University, and an MS in Hazardous Materials Management from Tufts University.
Registration and Contact Hours
Select the Enroll button below to register for this webinar. If you have any trouble accessing the webinar, contact trainingmanager@nephtc.org.
The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the webinar. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.