Reply #21: At one of my jobs we have an employee ID [View All]

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Although we are not required to wear it, whenever we take the clients into the community we can wear it. The purpose of the ID is to identify ourselves as staff in the event of an incident with the clients where we might have to physically assist or restrain them. In the past people in the community have become concerned and/or tried to intervene when this has happened, and the agency thought it a good idea if the staff had ID to show to indicate that we were not just strangers "beating up on defenseless disabled people", as it might otherwise seem.