Personal Safety Training UK — What It Covers in 2026 | Dynamis
Personal Safety Training: What It Actually Covers in 2026 Personal safety training is often misunderstood. Some people hear the phrase and think it means self-defence. Others imagine a half-day course with a few wrist releases, a leaflet, and a certificate at the end. Neither picture is good enough for public-facing work in 2026. For most […]
Un-common Sense in Utilities — The first ten seconds are not small talk
How utility, gas and electric engineers can read a doorstep in the first ten seconds — and turn it into a safer visit. A practical conflict-management framework for lone workers, drawing on Dynamis’ frontline safety materials. Trainer’s desk thought: the front door is a decision point. For utilities, housing, repairs and maintenance teams, the first […]
Conflict Resolution Redirections
Conflict Resolution Redirections How to Avoid being Skewered by Verbal Abuse: Conflict Resolution Redirections are used when you are facing difficult behaviour or verbal abuse which might distract you from your communication task. Hi, it’s Gerard O’Dea here, and we’re going to talk today about communicating under pressure. We are on the strategy number six […]
£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. […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Emergency Department Acute Mental Health Area
Patients suffering from an acute psychological or psychiatric crisis have unique and often complex requirements. An Emergency Department should have adequate facilities for the reception, assessment, stabilisation, and initial treatment of patients presenting with acute mental health problems. It is not intended that this should reproduce the facilities of dedicated mental health admission centres, nor […]
Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions: Course Feedback
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