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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 enter buildings and […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Issues in Managing Distress in Dementia Care
Time and again caregiving staff in services for older people are explaining scenarios where they believe: 1) The resident’s care needs and previously reported challenging behaviour / violent incidents were not assessed properly prior to admission to the home. 2) The instructions from supervisors were not appropriate to the person’s needs. 3) Newly identified risks […]
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 center in Chicago right next to O’Hare Airport. It is a beautiful state of the art training facility. While visiting, I had a chance to talk with Scott Buhrmaster, their vice president in charge of operations. Scott and I have known each other […]
Beauty Bites Beast at the 2015 Dynamis FES Trainer Programme
Our mid-day pause for thought and exploration on Day 1 of our programme was a superb on-point talk about training women and girls in Self-Defence from sector guru Ellen Snortland, author of “Beauty Bites Beast” and its accompanying 2015 documentary film of the same name. We have 9 new excellent trainers joining our ‘9 Attitudes’ community […]
Restraint Training: Soft Cuff as the Least Restrictive Option
The Alternative option: Soft-Cuffs (Emergency Response Cuff – ERC) An innovative and very significant restraint device is now available to hospitals and care services in the UK and we believe that it deserves a serious and comprehensive exploration. The equipment is formally known as the Emergency Response Cuff (ERC) and is sometimes referred to as the “Soft-Cuff” due its tough-cloth […]
5th Annual Dynamis/FES Trainer Course Almost Full!
Our 2015 Self-Protection Trainer course is almost full! With bookings only open since late January, we have had a strong response to our 5th annual self-protection trainer course. The course teaches what is possibly the most quickly-assimilated and easily-retained self-protection tactics course in the sector today (Functional Edge System or FES), combined with industry-leading Trainer […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Environment and Physical Design
According to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), one element of performance by which a hospital’s environment of care is measured is that “the hospital controls access to and egress from security-sensitive areas, as determined by the hospital. Ambulatory and Ambulance entrances should be separate, with electronically operated locks, and glass should […]
Assaults by patients on medical staff cost €1.5m: IRELAND
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 €1.5m a year. New figures show 124 nurses, doctors and other staff were forced to take sick leave last year due to assaults that […]