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Throwback Thursday: Training the Special Forces in UAE
Some years ago we were asked — because of the common technology shared by our trainers, the “9 Attitudes” framework and our Behavioural Self-Protection training methodology — to put together a team of experienced police and tactical trainers for a project in the UAE. A client with a specific requirement to train their operators to […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Issues in Managing Distress in Dementia Care
Time and again, caregiving staff in services for older people describe scenarios where they believe fundamental safety and care processes have broken down. Across the many care homes we work with, six concerns surface repeatedly. What Care Home Staff Are Reporting 1. Inadequate pre-admission assessment. The resident’s care needs and previously reported challenging behaviour or […]
Safer People Handling Qualification
A significant continuing professional development engagement this week sees Dynamis training director Gerard O’Dea going through a BTEC Level4 course with a national-level safety organisation. Gerard is busy learning about the safer handling of vulnerable people, the assessment of their movement needs and how to design and risk assess moving and handling. The ultimate result […]
I can’t hear what you are thinking: Crisis Intervention
Hi there. Gary Klugiewicz here. I recently visited Force Science’s new training centre in Chicago, right next to O’Hare Airport — a beautiful, state-of-the-art training facility. While I was there, I had a chance to talk with Scott Buhrmaster, their vice president in charge of operations. Scott and I have known each other over twenty […]
Beauty Bites Beast at the 2015 Dynamis FES Trainer Programme
A Pause for Thought on Day 1 Our mid-day session on Day 1 of the 2015 Dynamis FES Trainer Programme was a superb, on-point talk about training women and girls in self-defence — delivered by sector guru Ellen Snortland, author of Beauty Bites Beast and its accompanying 2015 documentary film of the same name. How […]
Restraint Training: Soft Cuff as the Least Restrictive Option
An innovative and significant restraint device is now available to hospitals and care services in the UK — and it deserves a serious, comprehensive exploration. The equipment is formally known as the Emergency Response Cuff (ERC) and is sometimes referred to as the “Soft-Cuff” due to its tough-cloth construction. While sharing many characteristics with its […]
5th Annual Dynamis/FES Trainer Course Almost Full!
5th Annual Course Nearly Full — Register Now With bookings only open since late January, we have had a strong response to our 5th annual self-protection trainer course. The most quickly-assimilated and easily-retained self-protection tactics course in the sector today. The course teaches the Functional Edge System (FES), combined with industry-leading Trainer resources on the […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Environment and Physical Design
Emergency departments face unique security challenges. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) measures a hospital’s environment of care partly by how well it “controls access to and egress from security-sensitive areas.” For trauma centres and emergency departments — where emotions run high and vulnerable patients converge — the physical environment itself becomes […]
Assaults by patients on medical staff cost €1.5m: IRELAND
The Scale of the Problem Irish medical staff are being assaulted by patients to such an extent that, on average, once every three days a staff member has to take weeks off work — costing the taxpayer €1.5 million a year. New figures show 124 nurses, doctors and other staff were forced to take sick […]