NHS staff face significant risks in the workplace, including working with the public, commuting at unsociable hours and operating dangerous machinery. These are some of the common job roles we support and risks our service helps to mitigate:
There are multiple types of nurses in the community, working alone majority of the time, while traveling to and from appointments, carrying out home visits, and delivering equipment to patients' homes.
Maintaining all hospital buildings, services and equipment. These staff work mainly alone and can face risks related to their equipment, slips, trips or falls and some risk in dealing with public aggression.
Triaging patients when coming into the ED, working at risk at all times dealing with the public, who could become aggressive or violent which is becoming increasingly prevalent as wait times continue to rise.
Despite working in teams of two or three, paramedics remain at risk of violence and aggression from the public with incidents towards ambulance crews escalating to unprecedented numbers since the pandemic.
Working in remote areas in clinical settings away from colleagues
Staff travelling between clinical settings
Lone working admin staff
Taking public transport or walking home after long shifts
Abuse, violence and aggression from patients, their relatives, or the public
Transporting patients
Accompanying service users to appointments
Facilities management
Slips, trips, falls and health incidents
Home visits
Escorting service users on section 17 leave
Risk of attack or robbery
Terror threats
