What are the risks of Distressed Behaviour in Care Homes?
Distressed Behaviours in Care Homes – what are the risks? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. We have met hundreds of care home staff in our training sessions, and this article aims to clarify some of the issues related to managing aggression and violence with older people, or vulnerable […]
Local Authority failure in Lone Working linked to assault and £100k fine in HSE Prosecution
Two social workers were assaulted during a routine home visit — and the local authority paid a heavy price for failing to protect them. This case study from the Health and Safety Executive highlights the critical importance of lone worker safety policies in the social care sector. The Incident Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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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 […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers: Who Should Go on the Visit? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Training lone workers sometimes means making sure they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead — and how many people should attend. Sometimes, client history means no visit at all. In a rough-cut […]
Personal Safety for Lone Workers
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Should organisations prioritise personal safety for lone workers? Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees. This act of […]
Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who had […]
Training for Restraint:: things to avoid (#6) escorts on aircraft
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. The accompanying photo to this post comes from a restraint-related death of a deportee which happened in 1999 in Germany. The man who died was called Aamir Agheeb, a Sudanese national who died during an aircraft restraint on a Lufthansa flight (news story). […]
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 […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
The Challenge of Distressed Behaviour in Care This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Gerard O’Dea, our Director of Training, was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult, or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in […]