1. Health and Safety
Unit 3
Sophie Bevan

2. Understand Priorities and Responses in Dealing with Incidents and Emergencies

3. Types of Incidents and Emergency
Abuse
Accidents
Exposure to infection
Exposure to chemicals
Intruders
Spillages
Aggressive Encounters
Emergency Aid
Fire

4. INTRUDERS

5. Objectives Explain how to deal with intruders
Explain possible choices for action
Explain the order in which you would carry these out
Provide reasons for the priorities and responses

6. “A person who enters a building with criminal intent”
What is an intruder?
“A person who enters a building with criminal intent”

7. How to Deal with an intruder?
You are a carer in a residential home for adults with learning difficulties. The home has high security levels in place. At lunch time, you notice an unidentified person quickly leaving one of the residents rooms, not dressed in a uniform, but instead in a tracksuit and gloves. You are immediately suspicious.
What should you do?

8. Burglary Case
In 2004 in Chiswick, west London, 45-year-old teacher Robert Symons died at his home from a stab wound he is believed to have sustained in a struggle with an intruder.
Incidents like these inevitably prompt people to ask themselves how they would react if they discovered an intruder in their home.

9. Types of Intruder Relatives Un-identified persons Criminals
Opportunist burglars
Ex-employees
Illegal access

10. Health and Social Care Settings
In groups, choose a category and come up with your own intruder scenario
Hospital (A & E)
Counselling session
Childrens Nursery
Elderly Day Care Home

11. How should you handle an intruder?
A judge backed Derbyshire farmer Kenneth Faulkner who shot and wounded a burglar who had raided his home three times.
But the high-profile case of Norfolk farmer Tony Martin saw him jailed for three years for shooting dead a teenage burglar in his home in 1999

12. How should you handle an intruder?
Call the Police
Avoid confronting intruder
Inform Relatives
Report in accidents and incidents book
Review and update policies and procedures for dealing with incidents
Protect yourself
Access support for your emotional reactions
Protect people you are caring for