What are the potential safety issues I am likely to encounter in this field placement (health, weather, fire, crime, conflict, safety

What are the potential safety issues I am likely to encounter in this field placement (health, weather, fire, crime, conflict, safety

Safety & Field Placement – Conversation Guide

Use this conversation guide with your field instructor to raise your awareness of work-place safety risks and strategies.

Upload a document answering the following questions:

  1. What are the potential safety issues I am likely to encounter in this field placement (health, weather, fire, crime, conflict, safety for self, safety for others, etc.)?
  2. What does this agency do to keep staff safe?
  3. What are some resources you can share with me to help me attend to safety concerns within this social work setting? (safety orientation, trainings, specific policies/protocols, use of equipment such as “panic buttons”).
  4. In general, what do you think new social workers should know about safety? What do you wish you would have known?
  5. Other specific questions/ issues.

In addition to the resources provided by your Field Instructor, please review your MSW Field Education Manual (available in Canvas), as well as:

NASW Social Work Safety

NASW Guidelines for Social Work Safety

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