22-02-12 Personal Safety Training: Car Jacking
Personal Safety Training: Car Jacking
Personal Safety Training is not just something that is done to give new skills or ideas to avoid being car jacked, but it is also delivered to install a degree of confidence if confronted by someone trying to forcibly take your car.
Going through a carjacking experience would be an emotional and frightening experience and it is not something that can be put down to a normal everyday occurrence, but we have to face facts that this is growing problem. Current instances appear to be widespread and sporadic at the moment and the target primarily appears to be on individuals in their own personal cars, but how long do we think it will be before the target changes to vans, trucks or even essential vehicles that supply support for the elderly or vulnerable?
To discuss or comment on the consequences or outcomes that should be done to anyone caught carrying out this despicable act, would take a lot longer than discussing the prevention of it, but it is important that anyone who has a concern or worry about their safety should seek advice or guidance to help them prevent themselves being involved in an incident.
Personal Safety Training is a subject that sometimes is put down to “Don’t need it, as it will never happen to me” but I am sure if you ask anyone that has experienced such an incident they would tell you that they had the same view before it happened.
We should all remember that when we are driving anywhere, we should carry out a Dynamic Risk Assessment to judge whether it is safe to leave the car or drive away to a location where you feel safe. Our lives are very busy these days and we all seem to rush from pillar to post, and our awareness can be distracted from our environment.
Personal Safety Training that we deliver not only looks at the prevention of incidents around workplace violence, but also at how to deter & defuse it if confronted with aggression or violence.
For more information, please contact us on the details below and any of our team will be more than happy to talk to you.
Blog by Will Holland
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