Have you suffered a sudden fatality, raid, assault, terrorist attack, natural disaster, transport accident or some other calamity?

How ready are you to support those that have been bereaved, injured and emotionally traumatised?

How are you going to support your staff?

The benefits of being better prepared:

• Reduced litigation
• More rapid return to work for staff
• Demonstrates that you are a caring and compassionate organisation
• Reduced impact on your business
• Protecting your business name
• Enhancing your reputation as a caring employer
• Reduced sickness and absence
• Increased staff morale

What can docleaf offer?

• The development of critical incident response policies and procedures
• On site training in human aspects and compassionate care
• Development and training of CARE teams
• Screening for PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) using on-site TRiM assessments at 2-3 and 28 days
• A 24/7 global response service
• A national network of more then 200 trained therapists all with critical incident experience
• Mobilisation within 4 hours of notification of response service
• Immediate telephone support help lines for those impacted
• “Coping with a traumatic event” booklets covering coping strategies and information written in an easy to understand format
• Referral onto specialist post-trauma counselling when and where necessary
• Detailed follow up reports whilst respecting individual confidentiality
• A comprehensive crisis management programme with international experience

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In the aftermath of a critical incident the normal running of your business or organisation can be adversely affected. Incidents such as a death in the workplace, accidents, assault, suicide, robberies as well as the major incidents such as terrorism could affect not only the people closely involved in the incident but your wider workforce.

Employees who have been exposed to an incident will often be less effective in their roles leading to reduced productivity and possible financial loss. Following an event some people may experience feelings of guilt, withdraw from their normal interactions with their family, friends or colleagues, experience flashbacks, lack concentration, move through different emotions, anger, confusion to name but a few.

docleaf’s Post Trauma services are specifically designed to support your employees back to normal functioning as quickly as possible.

Immediately following an incident we can provide onsite support anywhere in the UK usually within four hours and often within two hours. docleaf can provide both psychological first aid to those involved and a crisis mentoring service to your crisis response team and your senior management.

Following the initial specialist trauma support we can also carry out a Trauma Risk Management Assessment (TRiM) usually between 48-72 hours after the incident enabling us to make recommendations to your organisation about the level of support needed to ensure that your employees are receiving the best possible interventions. This assessment will also identify those staff most at risk of developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

Whilst psychological trauma injury has been recognised as occurring after a single traumatic experience such as fighting in a war zone or being the victim of an accident, disaster or act of violence, it is also known that it can result from an accumulation of stressful, threatening events.

Examples include:

• Repeated exposure to horrific scenes at accidents or fires such as those endured by the emergency services
• Regular intrusion and violation both physical and psychological such as bullying, stalking, harassment, domestic violence
• Repeated involvement in dealing with serious crime
• Repeated violations such as verbal abuse, physical abuse emotional abuse and sexual abuse