Personal Safety Devices

Over 75,000 NHS staff experience physical violence and aggression each year. The proportion of lone workers sustaining injury from a physical assault is approximately 9% higher than that of non-lone workers. Lone workers are much more likely to report an assault to the police due to the severity of the incidents they experience.  

If you have been issued with a Personal Safety Device (PSD), you must remember to use it as your safety matters – don’t hesitate to Raise the Alarm! Please also refer to the Lone Working policy which will provide guidance on how to manage your safety affectively.

Roles are risk assessed for the requirement of a personal safety devices, and the allocation of a device is to the role and then aligned to the staff member in that role, If a staff member leaves the role / team they need to return the Personal safety device to their team leader so it can aligned to the next person who comes into the role.'

It is important that reliance have the right details of what device is aligned to the member of staff and their contact numbers - this enable prompt contact in the case of a red alert - if you need to inform reliance of any changes of alignment or contact details please complete the attached escalation form and send to servicedesk@reliancehightech.co.uk

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