If you are with the person

DO

• Stay calm
• Stay with the person.
• Call 000 and ask the police for assistance if the person is behaving aggressively towards you or threatening you with a weapon.

If the person has already harmed himself or herself:

• Call 000. Ask for an ambulance.
• Follow the ambulance consultant's advice.

If the person has not yet harmed himself or herself:

• If it is safe to do so, remove any firearms, knives, medications and other poisons, ropes or hoses from the person's reach.
• Try to make a safety contract with the person. Click here for more information about safety contracts.
• Encourage and support the person to go to a place where they'll remain safe from harm.
• If the person won't agree to keep safe, call the local public emergency mental health service for assistance.

DON'T

• Put yourself in any danger whilst offering support to the suicidal person.
• Leave the person alone.
• Attempt to wrestle a weapon away from someone as you may put yourself at risk.

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