Conflict Management Training for Utilities Engineers
Conflict Management Training for Utilities Engineers The Dynamis team recently completed a project to enhance the safety of the field workforce from a major UK energy utilities company. Imagine this with me for a second: “Your job is to travel out into the community, enter a completely unknown person’s home and spend 2-3 hours there […]
Is Officer Safety Training broken? If so, is there a way to fix it?
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/officer-safety-training-broken-so-can-we-fix-gerard-o-dea/ THE WHAT-WE-TEACH PROBLEM Early in my career, I was escorted into a room at a national-level agency and shown a single, security-restricted copy of the ‘Self-Defence’ training programme which was being taught to at-risk staff. My sense of anticipation before opening that document caused my heart to race. You can only imagine my disappointment, […]
Mental Health Escort Training: excellent Feedback from Frontline and Management
Secure Escort Training: modern, relevant, pragmatic. Hello! Gerard O’Dea here, Director of Training for Dynamis and I have been busy these past few weeks with a series of in-depth training engagements with Secure Escort and Patient Transport teams. Our secure escort training remit has been to provide help to these teams who provide safe transport […]
Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People: recent feedback for Safe Holding
“The Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People training was informative & the practical sessions were very useful to learn. I have gained a good knowledge on how to manage difficult or challenging behaviour within my job role.” — Care Assistant, Dementia Unit We recently carried out a series of safe holding training sessions for […]
Fostering: Vicarious Liability and Failure to Train
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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 violent clients they have in their care and for the protection of others – MAPA […]
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 […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
The technique being demonstrated in the picture accompanying this post is promoted as a way for controlling violent patients in a hospital setting. Unfortunately, it is potentially a deadly restraint and its use might go far beyond control and extend to culpable homicide or corporate manslaughter! Restraint training has moved on a lot in many […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
The accompanying images in this post are of something that has been referred to as a ‘Therapeutic Floor Hold’ in some training materials. It consistutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person who is being restrained is first taken to the floor – often through the use of some kind of unbalancing […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #3
There are better and less-better Restraint Techniques The image accompanying this post was apparently taken in 1907 of the City of London Police learning or demonstrating restraint techniques. They are clearly wearing jackets which suggest that there may have been input from some Japanese martial arts into the restraint techniques they were learning at the […]