How To Stay Safe When You Are Home Alone With Someone You Don't Know Like A Repairman

How can I stay safe when I am home alone with someone I don't know, like a repairman?

The best thing you can do, when you schedule workers to come in, is to make them conform to your schedule as much as possible. For example, when you ring up a cable company, they'll often give an eight hour window in which their engineer will call. I think that it's possible to narrow that down and make the call more convenient for you as a customer. Feeling safe could also be linked with making sure that you're not on your own when the person calls round. If you can't have a friend or relative at your property at the time of the call then it may be worth simulating conversation in another room in order to make the caller feel like you are not alone. Another option is to use the telephone as a means of boosting your confidence. You could ring your spouse and explain that "Joe", the cable repairman, is round and say that you will ring once he has left. In doing this, you are sending out the message that you are not alone and that you are expected to check-in with your partner. Asking for identification from the caller, and making sure that identification is genuine, is crucial in feeling safe in your home. Another good idea would be to restrict the caller to areas of the house where they are doing the work. If they have come to do work in the kitchen, don't allow them to wander the house or don't take them on a tour of the house, it's not necessary.