Lone Working Staff Safety through Supervision and Monitoring
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 safety are crucial to the protection of lone workers and this […]
How to call for help as a lone worker
Great Lone Worker Safety Devices – are they compatible with the Human Operating System? — Lone Worker Safety Devices have proliferated in lone worker safety management in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? How do you call for help as a lone worker? Our human survival […]
Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale
Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale 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 and record* this talk by “the most violently injured paramedic in […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
Lone Worker Abducted – is your training sufficient? Lone Worker Training may have helped a vulnerable social worker who was abducted and attacked by youths. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and hit […]
Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
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Punch Drunk Restraint Training Design
One of the key questions we have asked our colleagues in the field of training, as we have visited with them to share our approach is: “What stimulus are you preparing your staff to respond to?” The question is somewhat oblique, but it focusses on the heart of the matter – what do we […]
Personal Safety Tips for Lone Workers (or anyone)
Personal Safety Tips for Anyone: Our clients sometimes ask our Dynamis Team to deliver training on general personal safety for Lone Workers or in our specialised and highly developed future-facing Violence Prevention clinics for Survivors of Abuse. Here are 12 of our key personal safety tips, taken from and which form part of our Self-Protection Trainer Certification manual. […]
Reacting more quickly: Stimulus Identification in Breakaway Training
Stimulus Identification is a huge part of being able to respond to it One of the most important factors which influences Reaction Time (RT) and decision-making is the number of possible stimuli the performer must choose from at any given time – each of which may need a distinct response action to be programmed. […]
Risks of Lone Working
Risks of Lone Working in The Community In discussing this topic, I want to first turn our attention to a Royal College of Nursing study dealing with the issues of lone working and personal safety. The survey is very comprehensive and asked about 1500 nurses who work in the community about their experience of such. I […]
Understanding Reaction Time in Restraint Training and Personal Safety
In sports science, there is a vast and growing body of knowledge on the subject of Reaction Time, as it is one of the key components of the performance of skill. Reaction Time is defined as the interval of time that elapses from the sudden presentation of a stimulus to the beginning of […]