National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Workers offers practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice that will inform and enhance how you make decisions — and widen the conversations you have within your team about improving your personal safety systems. The material has been specifically developed to provide workers in […]
Case Study: Learning Disability Home Care
An 11-year-old boy with a brain injury and learning disabilities was presenting challenging behaviours that his home care team needed to manage safely and confidently. The Case-Manager who administrates and supervises the care package reached out to Dynamis for specialist guidance. The Challenge The young man was presenting infrequent but severe combative behaviour that put […]
Case Study: Training for Drug and Alcohol Support teams
When hostel supported-living staff face aggressive and violent behaviour from service users with chaotic lifestyles, generic training isn’t enough. Here’s how a tailored programme — built around stress, SCARF triggers, and real operational environments — transformed safety for one drug and alcohol support team. The Challenge A team of hostel supported-living staff were experiencing a […]
Case Study: Mental Health Unit Restraint Reduction Training
How Dynamis helped a mental health unit achieve a 90% reduction in mechanical restraint use and a 95% staff satisfaction rating, while meeting JCIA international standards. The Setting This was an ‘open’ psychiatric unit with separate male and female wards, delivering services in a highly multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-national environment. The unit faced the daily challenge […]
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they […]
Autistic man prosecuted for assault on care worker: focus on training
In October last year, a female care worker at a Leonard Cheshire home in Penrith was struck five times on the back and shoulder by George Robert Ostle, a 22-year-old autistic resident with epilepsy, diabetes, and other health conditions. As she and a male colleague left the room, Ostle threw a mug of tea in […]
This is what a Self-Protection Trainer programme looks like
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