Safety Bubble when working alone

Do you think about your safety bubble? What ever your role, where ever you work there will be times when you are ‘alone’. This may be as simple as when you making your way to your car at the end of the day. Now, we need to strike a balance here between paranoia and taking simple steps to maintain your safety bubble.

So what do we mean by ‘safety bubble’? Well think about it this way. When you are driving in the fast lane of the motorway (observing the national speed limit of course) you need to be alert at all times. By watching the cars behind you in all your mirrors and looking well ahead at the vehicle in front you can anticipate the traffic flow. Further more, if you manage the gap between you and the cars in front this will give you a safety margin or ‘bubble’ so that you can be prepared and have time to respond/react. This is like driving along with a great big washing up bubble surrounding the car, this is your ‘safety bubble’!

Now I would like you to think about the times that you are working ‘alone’. How can you create a ‘safety bubble’ so that you stay safe? Do you have a contact based at the office who you report your daily progress to? Do they know when you arrive at a client’s home and do you let them know when you are done? More importantly is there a procedure in place when you fail to report in?

If you usually walk home alone is there a colleague you could walk most of the way with? If not, do you chose the best route, is it well lit, do you avoid dark alleys and for the sake of a few minutes extra walk can you avoid being vulnerable.

These are simple steps that I want you to think about today so that you remain safe. If you are aware of how you manage your exposure to risk you will remain safe.

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