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Violence
Awareness Training
for Field Employees
This progress report describes a project to develop training materials that can help USDA Forest Service employees avoid or better handle violence and threats of violence. This report includes several recommended policy changes that are intended to help prevent violence.
This project came about because of concern throughout the Forest Service that employees are at significant risk of violence, especially while working in remote settings. At the behest of the Forest Service’s Washington Office Safety and Health unit, a project team was assembled at the Missoula Technology and Development Center. The project team examined and evaluated existing training programs and available data on violent victimizations and carried out extensive interviews with workers throughout the Forest Service. Based on the development work to date, the project team recommends producing a video training program of at least five modules. The first of these modules should be designed to raise employee awareness of potential problems and provide general preventive measures that can be employed by all Forest Service workers. The second module will be addressed to workers with supervisory duties. It is designed to raise supervisors’ awareness of potential problems and encourage them to make violence safety a priority. The third module will help Forest Service workers understand and cope with violence or threats they may face in their community and home because of their job. The fourth module will focus on how workers in field settings can read scenes and people to avoid or better handle potentially dangerous situations. The fifth module will consider what to do if a potentially dangerous encounter takes place in a remote setting.
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