Lone Worker Safety Device – could you use yours?
Lone Worker Safety Device: An Analysis 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. I mean, I am supposed to have it in my hand already […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression, including trying to strangle one of the residents. […]
The potential for actual management of aggression
The POTENTIAL for ACTUAL MANAGEMENT of AGGRESSION Twice in this article from the Herald newspaper members of staff at a facility in Ireland mention the specific training system that they are trained in, presumably for their own personal safety, for the control of violent clients they have in their care and for the protection of others – MAPA […]
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
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 staff. The Attack Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and […]
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 […]
Personal Safety Tips for Lone Workers (or anyone)
Our clients sometimes ask our Dynamis Team to deliver training on general personal safety for Lone Workers or in our specialised Violence Prevention clinics for Survivors of Abuse. Here are 12 of our key personal safety tips, drawn from our Self-Protection Trainer Certification manual. 12 Essential Personal Safety Tips 1. Body Language Matters Certain behaviours […]