Threat Detection
Threat Detection in Personal Safety Training by Zeb Glover in conversation with Ger O’Dea – Dynamis Training When we look at personal safety, people tend to put it into categories – the physical aspects and the non physical aspects. We could break down the non-physical aspect of Personal Safety training into two parts. The […]
Breakaway Training: Judges Comments in Dementia Care Assault Case
Breakaway Training mentioned in Dementia Care Home Assault Case A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia and since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed 13 acts of aggression and at least 5 attempts at serious acts of aggression, including trying to strangle one of the residents. […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers Sometimes means making sure that they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead and how many people should go. Sometimes, client history means no visit. In a rough-cut from a recent course where we were Training Lone Workers, our Director of Training and expert on personal safety Gerard O’Dea describes the […]
Personal Safety for Lone Workers
Should organisations prioritise personal safety for lone workers? Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees. This act of parliament places a statutory duty on employers, besides their common law […]
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 […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
Safe Holding Training to deal with Distressed Behaviour with Older People in Care Gerard O’Dea our Director of Training was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services, sometimes known as Safe […]
Restraint Training: Unsafe Handling caused death of resident and £57,000 fine
A South Lanarkshire care home provider was heavily fined after an elderly resident died after breaking her neck in a fall. At Hamilton Sheriff Court, BUPA Care Homes (Carrick) Ltd was fined £57,000 after pleading guilty to a breach of Section 3 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, which led to the […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
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