07/04/2025

Workplace Safety and De-escalation training

Workplace Safety and De-escalation training

Date: June 18, 2026

Time: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Location: Akillian Gallery, Massasoit Community College, 900 Randolph St, Canton, MA 02021

Description: The Workplace Safety and De-Escalation training is an instructor-led course designed to equip participants with the knowledge, tools, and practical techniques needed to stay safe in a variety of settings beyond the traditional workplace. The course emphasizes proactive safety planning, environmental awareness, and risk assessment strategies and practical de-escalation skills that can be applied when interacting with potentially agitated individuals, supporting safer and more effective community engagement.

Pre-requisite: There is an online training component that must be taken before the instructor led training. After you register, within a week, you will receive the invitation to take the online portion on your own. A reminder, that the online portion must be taken before the classroom portion.

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This free training is made possible through funding from the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (MTCP)

Priority will be given to in the following order:

• Local public health department staff members in departments with MHOA Tobacco MOUS.
• People who have attended an MHOA tobacco training in the last two years.
• People in departments who have tobacco as one of their FY26 PHE workplan.
• Then, it will be opened up to all health department staff.

Contact hours for continuing education: 7.2 CHO/CPH, MA RS, & 6 RS/REHS