Lone Working Community Nursing: 3 Hidden Risks
Community nursing is one of those roles where the work looks calm on paper and messy in real life. You’re on your own, in someone else’s environment, trying to deliver care professionally while reading a room you’ve never been in before. Most visits are routine. Some aren’t. And the tricky part is that escalation in […]
Lone working training: moving from compliance to real capability
Lone working training is often treated as a paperwork problem. Someone completes an e-learning module. A policy is issued. A device is provided. A manager records that training has been completed. Then the worker goes out alone. They may be locking up a building at night, visiting a home address, cleaning an empty site, inspecting […]
Violence reduction initiatives and programmes: building systems that keep people safer
This post is about violence reduction initiatives and programmes. Violence reduction is not a single project, training day or policy refresh. It is the ongoing work of understanding where harm is happening, why it is happening, what can prevent it, and how the organisation learns when incidents still occur. 💡 Key takeaway: Violence reduction is […]
Personal safety for utilities, gas, electricity and maintenance staff
This post is about personal safety for utilities,. Utilities and maintenance staff often meet people in practical, ordinary moments that can still become difficult very quickly. A gas engineer arrives to inspect a meter. An electricity worker needs access to equipment. A maintenance operative knocks at a flat where the resident was not expecting them. […]
Personal Safety for Housing, Social Work and Probation teams
This post is about conflict management, personal safety, and Dynamis training. Vanessa O’Dea talks to coach-trainer Alex Hunter about a recent two-day personal safety course for Probation Housing Officers — and the everyday risks these community-based workers face. Why provide personal safety training for housing staff? Dynamis has provided personal safety training for housing and […]
Threat Detection
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | 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 side of personal safety training into two parts: The ability to detect a danger or a threat […]
Local Authority failure in Lone Working linked to assault and £100k fine in HSE Prosecution
Two social workers were assaulted during a routine home visit — and the local authority paid a heavy price for failing to protect them. This case study from the Health and Safety Executive highlights the critical importance of lone worker safety policies in the social care sector. The Incident Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on […]
Lone Worker Course “benefitted my ability to face certain situations”
Feedback on our Lone Worker Personal Safety Training This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. “Thank you again for such an informative and practical couple of days learning about working alone in safety, which I feel has really benefited my learning and ability to face certain situations. I really feel […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers: Who Should Go on the Visit? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Training lone workers sometimes means making sure they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead — and how many people should attend. Sometimes, client history means no visit at all. In a rough-cut […]
Community team safety and Doorstep Decisions
Doorstep Decisions for Community Team Safety This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Community team safety often hinges on difficult decisions made on the doorstep. When approaching the front door of a previously violent client’s house, knowing their background, history and recent state, what threshold of danger would you set […]