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Working Late Hours & Safety

Working Late Hours & Safety

If you live in a high crime area and finish work at late hours in the morning, what are some of your options, especially if you are a woman?

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The best things to do is to stay in well lighted or well traveled areas. Knowing your area and the potential places a crime could occur. Travel with keys ready or pepper mace ready in case you are assaulted.

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In countries such as mine you are not allowed to use pepper spray.

Here are my first options:

1. Do not take such a job, try your best to get a day time job

2. If you must take the job then agree with your boss that you can get off a bit earlier

3. Travel with other workers as far as you can

4, Make sure to vary your hours - do not leave at the same time on the same days - no patterns.

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Maybe you can stay with a friend that leaves in the area or even wait until the early hours of the morning when the sun is up. I don't think having another woman as a traveling companion can make a difference.

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I try to let women know that if they are traveling at night to keep your doors locked. If you are walking alone try to keep some keys between you fingers to use against an attacker. If you can carry pepper mace. Do not walk the same way home every night. Know where the businesses are that are open over night so you can walk/run to them if need be arises. Even if nothing has happened try to stay alert. Look for things that are out of place. Have a friend pick you if possible. I also show them some self defense moves to get away from a would be attacker.

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Its interesting no one suggested having a personal firearm like one of those mini hand guns.

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A gun is not likely to help much unless you are proficient in its use. Not really that easy to shoot some one unless you had practice. Killing another human is hard mentally for most.

What about loud horns and thing to make noise, after all the idea is they do not desire to be scene. Marking die is an item that may not stop them but help id them in the end. I have heard it is a deterrent also as they take off seeing they have been marked.

Really though the biggy is being more then one person and in a well lit and well traveled area. Higher chance of robber getting caught. I now in some areas that does not matter and the only safe way is not to be there.

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Having a fire arm is a big responsibility. Having one will keep you safe as long as you are prepared to use it. I do not mention the use of a firearm because most are not able to use it for what it is designed to be used for. Having it just means the attacker is now armed in most cases.