by dynamistraining | Tuesday, September 6, 2016 | Control and Restraint, Legal Court Case, Restraint Devices, restraint positional asphyxia, Sudden death during restraint
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...
by dynamistraining | Thursday, May 19, 2016 | Least Restrictive Option, Physical Interventions, Positive Handling, Restraint Devices, Training Design, Verbal Defense and Influence
Reducing Risk and the Prone Position A representative of ACPO’s Self Defence, Arrest and Restraint (SDAR) Working Group described in evidence to an inquiry how to differentiate between the Control Phase and the Restraint Phase of a physical intervention. Once Control...
by dynamistraining | Friday, April 22, 2016 | Personal Safety, Physical Interventions, Restraint Devices, Security and Door Supervisors, Self-Protection Trainer Course, Training Design
Floor Based Restraint Controversy In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone...
by dynamistraining | Tuesday, March 8, 2016 | brain injury, Care Home Risks, Dementia Care, Elderly Mentally Infirm EMI, Legal Court Case, mental health unit, Quality management, Restraint Devices
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28,...
by dynamistraining | Wednesday, December 2, 2015 | Breakaway Skills, Conflict Management, Physical Interventions, Restraint Devices, Security and Door Supervisors, Verbal Defense and Influence
Officer Safety Training Case: A Scottish police service had a training requirement to carry out Officer Safety Training for a team of Custody Support Officers whose roles would be to deal with the needs of alleged offenders who are brought into custody in the police...
by dynamistraining | Thursday, October 1, 2015 | Hospital Security and Conflict, Least Restrictive Option, Physical Interventions, Restraint Devices
Back in 2013, my team and I had the opportunity to demonstrate the use of the Emergency Response Belt to our healthcare authority clients in Dubai. With a very busy Emergency Department, taking hundreds of cases every day, the staff were sometimes having to deal with...
