MRS Guidance Essential Safeguards Part 6

MRS guidance – Essential Safeguards series

Face to face data collection: Personal safety

There are several dimensions to the risks that practitioners may face when involved in close social interaction:

• risk of physical threat or abuse
• risk of psychological trauma, as a result of actual or threatened violence or the nature of what is disclosed during the interaction
• risk of being in a comprising situation, in which there might be accusations of improper behaviour
• increased exposure to risks of everyday life and social interaction, such as road accidents and infectious illness
• risk of causing psychological or physical harm to others.

Scope of guidance

The guidance aims to help practitioners identify areas where they can increase the personal safety of those engaged in face-to-face data collection.  

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