Lone Working in Community Nursing: The Three Risks Most Risk Assessments Miss
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 […]
Personal Safety for Housing, Social Work and Probation teams
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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 […]
Local Authority failure in Lone Working linked to assault and £100k fine in HSE Prosecution
Lone Social Worker team assaulted and Local authority fined £100k A local authority has been fined after two of its social workers were assaulted on a home visit by the mother of a vulnerable child they were visiting. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how, on 3 July 2015, two social workers employed by London Borough of Brent […]
Lone Worker Course “benefitted my ability to face certain situations”
Feedback on our Lone Worker Personal Safety 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 it is the best training I have ever had and I hope […]
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 […]
Community team safety and Doorstep Decisions
Doorstep-Decisions for Community team safety Community team safety Personal Safety often hinges on difficult decisions made on the doorstep. When approaching the front door of a previously violent client’s house, knowing some of their background and history and recent state, what threshold of danger would YOU set for the meeting you are about to have? Low Risk? […]
Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
In this rough-cut video clip from a recent Lone Worker Personal Safety Training programme, our Director of Training and Keeping Lone Workers Safe expert trainer Gerard O’Dea discusses one important case where a lone worker was seriously attacked by a person who had issued threats to her – but the information was never shared by […]
Lone Worker Safety Training: Setting your awareness
Awareness in Lone Worker Safety Training Here is a list compiled by Ray Braithwaite in his book ‘Managing Aggression’ of Social Care Staff murdered in a 25-year period from 1984: 1984 Isabel Schwartz. SOCIAL WORKER. Bexley 1985 Norma Morris. SOCIAL WORKER. Haringey 1986 FrancisBetteridge.SOCIAL WORKER. Birmingham 1988 Audrey Johnson. SOCIAL WORKER. London 1992 KatieSullivan.VOLUNTARY WORKER. Kingston‐upon‐Thames 1993 […]
How to call for help as a lone worker
Great Lone Worker Safety Devices – are they compatible with the Human Operating System? — Lone Worker Safety Devices have proliferated in lone worker safety management in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? How do you call for help as a lone worker? Our human survival […]