Personal Safety for Human Service Providers

Details

• Personal Author:
  Griffin WV
• Description:
  An introductory video and viewer's guide on personal safety for human service providers were developed in order to heighten awareness of risk and to reduce dangers related to threats and violence in the field of human services. The video and guide were to be used to introduce social services staffs and others to basic personal safety issues. The overall results of the research aspects are the development of a reliable instrument to measure viewer's responses to video instruction and significance in the findings from the research sessions. The video was demonstrated to be a useful tool to increase awareness and improve knowledge about worker safety in public human services settings. The Staff Safety Awareness and Knowledge Instruments developed were effective in measuring and statistically discriminating between those who had and had not experienced worker safety training. Some instructive value was also noted in the Instrument itself. Feedback from subjects indicated that both knowledge and awareness were moderately increased even among workers who were experienced through previous training. The author suggests that a more comprehensive, more topically complete set of videos addressing worker safety would be a powerful tool to improve safety and reduce incidents of assault, trauma and threats of violence. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Occupational Health Safety Violence Workplace
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant Occupational-safety-programs Safety-education Safety-practices Workplace-violence
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00240644
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB98-130826
• Citation:
  Independent Living Resources, Inc., Durham, North Carolina 1997 Oct; :1-12
• Contact Point Address:
  Independent Living Resources I 4324 Thetford RD Durham, NC 27707
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1998
• Performing Organization:
  Independent Living Resources, Inc., Durham, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19960930
• Source Full Name:
  Independent Living Resources, Inc., Durham, North Carolina
• End Date:
  19970731
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d65eb59849add0af66273a1acb3604fca757867eedc8c787aa106afa755775c5ce32f98a7e999a84f0e8a31ca905603f598b2c4e4206e598ab897cd9370b8dbc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217940/cdc_217940_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 748.14 KB ]