Keeping Lone Workers Safe: Information Sharing
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. 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 […]
Lone Worker Safety Training: Setting your awareness
Awareness in Lone Worker Safety Training This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis 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. […]
How to call for help as a lone worker
Great Lone Worker Safety Devices — Are They Compatible with the Human Operating System? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Lone worker safety devices have proliferated in the past decade, but are they really useful in the most crucial of moments? The question isn’t whether the technology works — […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. The case raises urgent questions about whether lone worker safety training is keeping pace with the risks faced by frontline […]
Risks of Lone Working
The Reality of Lone Working A Royal College of Nursing study dealing with the issues of lone working and personal safety surveyed about 1,500 nurses who work in the community. The findings reveal serious gaps in how organisations protect their lone workers. 📊 RCN Survey findings: Almost two-thirds of community staff said their employers did […]
Case Study: Foster Carers Training
The Training Challenge A foster agency, contracted to the local authorities in its area, was receiving requests from its foster families to have training in the use of physical interventions. Families wanted clarity on the rules regarding this area and asked us for Foster Carers Training. The fostering agency maintained strong links to the local […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety: A Guidebook for Health and Social Care Workers offers practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice that will inform and enhance how you make decisions — and widen the conversations you have within your team about improving your personal safety systems. The material has been specifically developed to provide workers in […]
Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they […]