With crime on the rise, it’s more important now than ever before to ensure your employees’ safety. Because of this, we offer a variety of Personal Safety Awareness workshops. These workshops are typically an hour in length, and are designed to teach your employees how to protect and defend themselves in a fun and interactive manner.
To learn more about how you can help protect your employees from personal crimes, see below for our contact details.
Walking
When walking try to walk with the traffic coming towards you.
Why?
Simple.
If you get accosted by someone in a car you will have the ability to see them coming, they also have to talk to you through the passenger car window if they’re by themselves, which means they have to stretch across the passenger seat to be able to speak with you which puts them in an unfavourable position.
If they have someone with them, you will at least see them coming towards you and be able to prepare yourself to deal with the situation and calm yourself.
If you feel threatened don’t be afraid to scream and shout as loud as you possibly can!
If you have one, set off your personal attack alarm.
Don’t stand rooted on the spot but run to a place of safety immediately and remember if the car does decide to follow you they will have to turn the car around in the road, again buying you those precious seconds.
In all eventualities they will drive away as most assailants are looking for easy opportunities and if you show yourself to be capable and confident you’re not such an easy target.
Even when you’re in a hurry and on your own never be tempted to take a short cut across waste land or even down an alleyway, it’s much better to be slightly late than to never get their at all or to get there in one piece.
Most attacks or incidents take place when individuals are not paying attention or are in unfamiliar territory and look confused. Always try to project an air of confidence and if you do need directions ask at a shop or garage where there are other people around.
When you are able try to write down as many details as you can possible remember about the car and it’s occupant or occupants.
Make and model of the car, registration number, the colour, were there any distinctive markings on the car, dents etc, did it have any stickers or any bits missing.
What about the occupants, ethnicity, short hair, long hair. The colour of their hair, was it styled or cropped. Any scars or distinctive marks, the clothes they wore, any badges perhaps?
Always always report an incident like this to the police as this will help them to build a profile of possible related incidents and could prevent a more serious incident occurring in the future. It could be a member of your family or a friend that it happens to next.
Being followed
If you think you’re being followed it’s very important not to panic.
What happens when you panic?
Well chemicals start getting released in your body, cortisol, adrenaline, your heart rate rises, you start breathing more quickly, you can’t seem to think straight!
STOP!
This is the time to have a procedure in place that you can follow that will serve to calm you and will also help you to think clearly.
Acknowledge with a sidelong glance that you know you’re being followed, use strong and positive body language and even if you’re not familiar with your surroundings you could always act as though you are.
Cross the road once without rushing but at a good pace, if they continue to follow you it could just be coincidence so continue to stay calm.
Cross a second time still maintaining good body language and still projecting an air of calm and confidence.
If they follow you again it’s fairly certain that you are being followed, but it’s still very important to remain calm and projecting confidence and an air of authority about you at all times and keep thinking things through.
Do not panic.
The thing to do is to get to a place of safety as soon as you can, maybe a garage, a shop or maybe approach a group of people.
If necessary knock on someone’s door and explain to them without be asked to be allowed in, that you are feeling very frightened as you think that you are being followed and ask them to stay with you while you telephone for help. Most people will do that as their natural instinct is to help.
What you’ll probably find is as soon as your would-be assailant can see that you’re in control and not alone he will more than likely just disappear.
Full-Day Personal Safety and Awareness Workshops are available from The Lifestyle Guy
We offer a full-day workshop which includes six, one-hour workshops. Instead of briefly covering all the topics in a single one-hour session, we break the day into six different aspects of personal safety. In this full-day workshop we’ll cover:
- Personal safety at home
- Personal safety on public transportation
- Personal safety while driving/parking
- Personal safety while out and about
- As well as two different high impact strike classes!
Without a doubt, the full-day workshop is our best value, as it gives your employees a complete day focused on building their self-awareness and teaching them how to be aware of their surroundings so as to prevent an attack in any situation.
Be prepared!
By preparing your employees ahead of time, you are giving them the tools they need to decrease their risk of being attacked. Taking sensible precautions can save your life - our Awareness workshops will ingrain these precautions into you and your team, give you the confidence you need to protect yourselves, and help boost your team morale as well!
Booking your self-defence workshop is as easy as picking up the phone.
Give Garth Delikan a call today to book your workshop, and give your team the protection and confidence they need!
Call 0800 158 3091 today.