Screech Alarms and Lone Worker Protection

What Can a Screech Alarm Actually Do? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Using a personal safety “screech”-type alarm might be useful as part of an overall escape strategy in Lone Worker Protection. But it shouldn’t be a psychological crutch. What is the real utility of the siren on […]

Lone Worker Safety Device – could you use yours?

The ‘Everything Works in Theory’ Problem This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. We met a training participant some years ago who described how she expected to use her Lone Worker Safety Device: “Well first, I would hopefully have it ready if I thought anything bad was going to happen. […]

Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case

Breakaway Training: A Judge’s Warning from a Dementia Care Case This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. In just four months since arriving, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression […]

The potential for actual management of aggression

The Potential for Actual Management of Aggression This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Twice in this article from the Herald newspaper, members of staff at a facility in Ireland mention the specific training system they are trained in — presumably for their own personal safety, for the control of […]

Lone Working Staff Safety through Supervision and Monitoring

This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Director of Training and Lone Working Staff Safety expert Gerard O’Dea discusses a key story about the tragic loss of a lone worker in the area of social care and home care. The issues of lone worker supervision, diary management, and monitoring of […]

How to call for help as a lone worker

Great Lone Worker Safety Devices — Are They Compatible with the Human Operating System? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Lone worker safety devices have proliferated in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? The question isn’t whether the technology works — […]

Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale

This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Several years ago I was fortunate to be asked to present at a national conference for trainers in the prevention and management of violence and aggression. While I was there, I had the great privilege to hear this talk by “the most violently […]

Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused

This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. The case raises urgent questions about whether lone worker safety training is keeping pace with the risks faced by frontline […]

Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000

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Punch Drunk Restraint Training Design

What Stimulus Are You Preparing Your Staff to Respond To? One of the key questions we ask our colleagues in the field of training, as we visit with them to share our approach, is: “What stimulus are you preparing your staff to respond to?” The question is somewhat oblique, but it focuses on the heart […]