What are the risks of Distressed Behaviour in Care Homes?
Distressed Behaviours in Care Homes – what are the risks? 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 adults in care. We recently received gratitude from a client company that […]
Local Authority failure in Lone Working linked to assault and £100k fine in HSE Prosecution
Lone Social Worker team assaulted and Local authority fined £100k A local authority has been fined after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 3 July 2015, two social workers employed by London Borough of Brent […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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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. […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers Sometimes means making sure that they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead and how many people should go. Sometimes, client history means no visit. In a rough-cut from a recent course where we were Training Lone Workers, our Director of Training and expert on personal safety Gerard O’Dea describes the […]
Personal Safety for Lone Workers
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 parliament places a statutory duty on employers, besides their common law […]
Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
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 issued threats to her – but the information was never shared by […]
Training for Restraint:: things to avoid (#6) escorts on aircraft
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 and he was a Sudanese national who died during an aircraft restraint on a Lufthansa flight (see news story). Restraint during deportation has become national-level news here in the UK […]
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 […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care 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 their services, sometimes known as Safe […]