Lone Worker Safety Training: Setting your awareness
Awareness in Lone Worker Safety Training Here is a list compiled by Ray Braithwaite in his book ‘Managing Aggression’ of Social Care Staff murdered in a 25-year period from 1984: 1984 Isabel Schwartz. SOCIAL WORKER. Bexley 1985 Norma Morris. SOCIAL WORKER. Haringey 1986 FrancisBetteridge.SOCIAL WORKER. Birmingham 1988 Audrey Johnson. SOCIAL WORKER. London 1992 KatieSullivan.VOLUNTARY WORKER. Kingston‐upon‐Thames 1993 […]
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 […]
Conflict Resolution: Review and Report
Conflict Resolution: Review and Report Here is a video about Conflict Resolution: Review and Report which describes how we achieve better final outcomes when we interact with people. Achieving Closure and Improved Future Performance: Gerard O’Dea is a conflict management, personal safety and physical interventions training consultant. He is the training director for Dynamis, a specialist […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the […]
Conflict Resolution: Bystander Mobilisation
Conflict Resolution Course – Defeating the Apathy of the Group Conflict Resolution Course which teaches how to energise those who are in the periphery of a conflict moment and get them moving and helping rather than being victims of inertia and the apathy of the group. Gerard O’Dea is a conflict management, personal safety and […]
Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
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Conflict Resolution Listening Skills
Conflict Resolution Listening Skills Getting to the Heart of the Problem Conflict Resolution Listening Skills are the means by which we gather the information we need to de-escalate a distressed person, through understanding their needs and what is driving them. Hi, it’s Gerard O’Dea here and today we’re looking at communicating under pressure. It’s […]
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. […]