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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. […]
Punch Drunk Restraint Training Design
What Stimulus Are You Preparing Your Staff to Respond To? One of the key questions we ask our colleagues in the field of training, as we visit with them to share our approach, is: “What stimulus are you preparing your staff to respond to?” The question is somewhat oblique, but it focuses on the heart […]