Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
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£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]
Care Home Restraint Training: a £44,000 price for restraint training failure
On New Year’s Eve 2009, a support worker at Dimensions (UK) Ltd was kicked in the eye by a client. The worker survived. The company’s reputation didn’t. When the Health and Safety Executive finished its investigation, Dimensions was fined £14,000 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs — a £44,000 penalty for a failure that […]
Impact Factors in Hospital Violence Reduction
Impact Factors in Hospital Violence The following causal factors are based on the US Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) analysis of risk factors for violence in hospital services. Use of hospitals by police and criminal justice agencies for criminal holds and the care of acutely disturbed persons Acute and Chronic mental health patients The […]