Welcome to the 2009 REALTOR^® Safety Week Hub

As safety week approaches, C.A.R. would like to remind you of the precautions you should take while on the job. Each week C.A.R. will provide you with handouts, articles, or office safety forms for you to download and keep for you, your associates, and your clients to review. Please look for safety tips throughout August and September in the Chicago Connection and on our Web site. To view safety products you can purchase from the REALTOR Team Store^®, click here. All information below is taken from the NAR 2009 REALTOR^® Safety Week Kit.

What's on the Tube?

Check out the "Safety Strategies For You and Your Clients".

CR Magazine: Safety Article

• REALTOR® Safety 2.0

12 Safety Articles

Read, print and share with your associates!

• Article 1: “It Could Never Happen to Me.” Why REALTOR® Safety Is for Everyone
• Article 2: The 10-Second Rule
• Article 3: Safety Tips for Clients
• Article 4: How to Avoid Carjacking
• Article 5: 5 Safety Tips for Showing Commercial Sites
• Article 6: Calling All Cars: How to Safely Use a Cell Phone behind the Wheel
• Article 7: Market Smart, Market Safe
• Article 8: How to Set up a “Distress Code” System
• Article 9: Safety at Open Houses
• Article 10: Safe Steps for Meeting a New Client
• Article 11: Fight or Flight? Consider the Best Response to a Physical Attack
• Article 12: Safeguard Your Computer

52 Safety Tips

Read and share with your associates and clients!

Archive of 2008 Safety Tips

Tip #1

Keep in touch.
Always let someone know where you are going; leave the name and phone number of the client you are meeting and schedule a time for your office to call you to check in.

Tip #2

“After you…”
When showing a home, always have your prospect walk in front of you. Don’t lead them, but rather, direct them from a position slightly behind them. You can gesture for them to go ahead of you and say, for example, “The master suite is in the back of the house.”

Tip #3

Create an office distress code.
Establish a voice distress code, a secret word or phrase that is not commonly used but can be worked into any conversation for cases where you feel that you are in danger. Use this if the person you are with can overhear the conversation, but you don’t want to alarm them. Example: “Hi, this is Jennifer. I’m with Mr. Henderson at the Elm Street listing. Could you e-mail me the RED FILE?”

Safety Presentation Handouts (PDF files)

Five sections of safety information! Print and share with your associates!

Section 1: Introduction

• Know Your Local Safety Resources
• Learn from Others' Experiences (REVISED)
• NAR's Online Safety Course (NEW)

Section 2: Safety on the Job

• Protect Yourself with Self-Defense Skills
• Showing and Managing Commercial Property
• Protect Yourself with a Distress Code System
• Fight or Flight? Escape is the Best Self-Defense
• The 10-Second Rule
• Protect Yourself with Smart Marketing Materials (REVISED)
• Safety at Open Houses
• Safety at Property Showings (REVISED)
• Cell Phone Safety (REVISED)
• Safety on the Road (REVISED)

Section 3: Safety at the Office

• Safety at the Office
• Share Safety Tips With Your Clients

Section 4: Safety at Home

• Safety at Home (REVISED)
• Protect Your Personal and Electronic Information (Identity Theft)

Section 5: Safety Resources

• Safety Resources (REVISED)
• Broker Safety

Office Safety Forms (MS Word Documents)

Downloads these customizable forms to help create office safety policies and guidelines.

• Office Safety Action Plan Worksheet
• Prospect Identification Form
• Agent Identification Form
• Agent Itinerary Form

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