Safeguarding Employees After Incidents
When a serious incident happens at work, the focus is often on the event itself — what went wrong, who did what, and how to prevent it next time. But what happens to the staff member at the centre of it? David Blocksidge, an expert on witness error and trauma, has spent years studying what […]
How to practice conflict management skills
How to practice conflict management skills How to practice conflict management skills? – we are often asked by our learners how they can get better at managing conflict. Gary Klugiewicz: “Within the Vistelar Conflict Management program, we practice what we call emotionally safe, performance driven instruction. And people say, “What is that all about?” Well, […]
Conflict Management Training for Utilities Engineers
The Challenge: Safety in the Field The Dynamis team recently completed a project to enhance the safety of the field workforce from a major UK energy utilities company. Imagine this for a moment: “Your job is to travel out into the community, enter a completely unknown person’s home and spend 2–3 hours there installing equipment. […]
Is Officer Safety Training broken? If so, is there a way to fix it?
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, however, when I discovered […]
Mental Health Escort Training: excellent Feedback from Frontline and Management
Gerard O’Dea here, Director of Training for Dynamis. I’ve been busy these past few weeks with a series of in-depth training engagements with Secure Escort and Patient Transport teams across the United Kingdom. Our remit has been to help these teams provide safe, professional, and compassionate transport services for people in the care and custody […]
Managing Distressed Behaviour in Older People: recent feedback for Safe Holding
Real feedback from dementia care staff “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 […]
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 This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Twice in this article from the Herald newspaper, members of staff at a facility in Ireland mention the specific training system they are trained in — presumably for their own personal safety, for the control of […]
How to call for help as a lone worker
Great Lone Worker Safety Devices — Are They Compatible with the Human Operating System? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Lone worker safety devices have proliferated in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? The question isn’t whether the technology works — […]
Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #5
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]