Does your staff have an up-to-date training plan for safely handling dogs?
Is your re-homing and adoption program backed by an assessment criteria and record keeping to ensure dogs are safe for adoption into the community?
Are your staff trained to recognise dog behaviour and body language cues to ensure their safety?
Have your staff been trained in how to break up a dog fight?
If you answered “No” to any of these questions, your company may be at significant corporate risk if a dog injures someone in the workplace.
At Custom Canine Consultancy our 1 day dog familiarisation workshop offers staff a foundational understanding in dog behaviour, incorporating the latest scientifically based understanding of dogs.
The workshop specifically designed for rangers and other local government will cover areas of dog behaviour such as:
Custom Canine Consultancy also offers an additional add on to the 1 day workshop a dog rehoming suitability assessment framework, where your staff will be taken through how to accurately and safely conduct and record an assessment of the suitability of a dog to be re-homed.
Imagine a scenario where a dog that was recently re-homed from council to a member of the community in the offending dog in a dog attack.
Having a thorough and robust assessment of each dog that leaves your facility will show that your council has reasonable steps when rehoming a dog. reducing the risk of formal legal proceedings being taken against council, as well as building the publics trust in dogs being re-homed from your facilities.
Our dog re-homing assessment policy framework can be included as an add on to the dog familiarisation workshop. This training goes for 1.5 hours.
In our opinion as soon as council taken ownership of a dog, it becomes the responsibility of the council to ensure the safety of its member’s and the safety of the community in which they serve.
If this sounds something that your council could benefit from and would like to find out more please head over to our contact page.
