This report is designed to review protocols and procedures for ensuring workplace safety in health and human service agencies. The research included in this report consists of information from worker safety trainings and published worker safety guidelines with a few noted worker safety studies. The research will discuss tips for maintaining safety in an office …
These guidelines address safety within the context of social work practice and aim to inform social workers, policymakers, employers, and the public about the importance of social worker safety in agency and field work; provide a basis for the development of social work undergraduate, graduate, and field placement practice and agency in-service programs, continuing education …
This paper describes a qualitative study to understand both child welfare workers’ safety experiences during their home visits, and the individual and organizational factors that influence their safety concerns. The specific research objectives were to (1) understand child welfare workers’ workplace violence experiences, (2) examine predictors of safety concerns, and (3) examine a relationship between …
This curriculum provides experienced Family Case Managers a refresher on risk management and safety awareness, reminding workers to recognize unsafe situations and develop practical and useful methods for safety intervention, including verbal de-escalation. Participants will also recall universal precautions to be used in the field.
This webpage provides resources that describe the risk factors and special safety precautions child welfare workers may need to take when working with families affected by domestic violence, including State and local examples.
This article offers general tips for building rapport physical safety and ethical consideration for social workers to consider when making home visits.
This is a blog post offers ways to minimize danger when dealing with perpetrators of domestic violence.
This document defines child welfare worker safety, identifies potential causes of child welfare worker safety risk, and provides recommendations for building organizational capacity for improving child welfare worker safety
This webpage provided by NASW-MA Chapter, offers policy recommendations and resources to reduce risk to clients, direct service staff, management and administration working in Child Welfare.
This document summarizes an article that reviews the prevalence of workplace violence in child welfare, describes prevention strategies, suggests a framework for responding to violence, and applies the framework to an event that occurred in a public child welfare workplace.
