Workplace Safety Toolkit

Tips for Employees and Volunteers

If you are using public transportation or a taxi to get to your assignment:

Determine risk levels of bus, subway, train, and walking to the destination.
Scope out the route by car with a friend first to identify the safest route to take from the stop to your destination.
Use busy, well-lit stops.
Keep aware of your surroundings — no dozing or daydreaming.
If you take a taxi there, how will you get back? Will cabs hailed on the street stop to pick up passengers in that neighborhood? If called, do they come?
Ask the taxi driver to wait until you are inside before leaving.

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