Chaos, Control then Resolution: Lessons from Three Days of Functional Skills for PPST and PMVA Trainers

Training the Messy Middle: What Functional Training Reveals About Skills Under Pressure Functional Tactics Training is what most physical-skills training should be but rarely is. It is the question of how to train a learner for the messy middle of a confrontation, not the clean start or the polished end. Training physical skills is easy […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis

Lone Working Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Workers offers practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice that will inform and enhance how you make decisions — and widen the conversations you have within your team about improving your personal safety systems. The material has been specifically developed to provide workers in […]
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?

Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they […]
Restraint Training Programmes and Accreditation
While reviewing documentation in regards to training needs analysis recently, I came across an interesting piece of research carried out by the Health and Safety Executive and published in 2006. In it, the researchers sought to evaluate training in violence management in the UK and find good practice advice. The document emphasises in a very […]