Floor Based Restraint Controversy In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that
Conflict Resolution: Review and Report Here is a video about Conflict Resolution: Review and Report which describes how we achieve better final outcomes when we interact with people. Achieving Closure and Improved Future Performance: Gerard O’Dea is a conflict management, personal safety and physical interventions training consultant. He is the training director for Dynamis, a specialist
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
Near Miss: “An unplanned event or situation that could have resulted in injury, illness, damage or loss but did not do so due to chance, corrective action or timely intervention.” Overheard recently on a training course: “The client reached forward and grabbed the driver of the car, from the
Conflict Resolution Course – Defeating the Apathy of the Group Conflict Resolution Course which teaches how to energise those who are in the periphery of a conflict moment and get them moving and helping rather than being victims of inertia and the apathy of the group. Gerard O’Dea is a conflict management, personal safety and