
JCI Issues Sentinel Event Alert about Workplace Violence in Healthcare
The JCI just issued Seven Steps to Manage Workplace Violence in Healthcare. Physical and verbal violence against health care workers is a worldwide problem and this week it was addressed by one of the largest accreditation bodies who survey and inspect hospitals...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...
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #1
This image was first published in an article about the types of physical restraint practices being carried out on children in schools in the USA. There are a large number of things in this ‘procedure’ which are likely to fail during a...
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
Near Miss: “An unplanned event or situation that could have resulted in injury, illness, damage or loss but did not do so due to chance, corrective action or timely intervention.” Overheard recently on a training course: “The client reached forward...