Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
In evidence for the Sean Rigg enquiry, an ACPO expert on Self-Defence Control and Arrest procedures described his opinion of the stages involved in securing an adult-sized subject who is violent and resisting arrest. He talks about two phases of an altercation with a subtle distinction between them. Firstly the “control” phase, followed by the […]
Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which […]
Protect Staff from Spitting: Worker almost blinded and Care Service fined £110,000
Spitting risk: a care worker left with 20% vision A 32-year-old care worker had to get a corneal transplant in her eye after a spitting incident at Low Moor Resource Centre in Bradford left her with only 20% vision in the eye. She has been told there is a high risk the transplant may leave […]
Nightclub death linked to Neck Restraint
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Understanding Reaction Time in Restraint Training and Personal Safety
In sports science, there is a vast and growing body of knowledge on the subject of Reaction Time, as it is one of the key components of the performance of skill. Reaction Time is defined as the interval of time that elapses from the sudden presentation of a stimulus to the beginning of a person’s […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Alzheimer’s man (90) punched to death by fellow resident
Care home safe holding has to account for risk between residents, not only between staff and residents. Dennis Bryant died in November 2013 at the age of 90 after fellow Alzheimer’s patient, Michael Hall, went into his room in Westcott House Nursing Home in Dorking and punched him several times in his bed. The attacker, […]
Restraint Training: The Biggest Mistake in Control Tactics
Coach Tony Torres says that the biggest problem in Control Tactics is that people try to exert control too soon in the confrontation timeline. The biggest problem in Control Tactics is that people try to exert control too soon in the confrontation timeline. The Three Phases of Any Confrontation In our 9 Attitudes methodology from […]
Restraint Training: How many people to clean a resisting subject in a bed?
In addition to the issues we have previously identified in regards to residents who combatively resist efforts to assist them with personal hygiene (particularly if they have incontinence without awareness of this), one further example of the risk assessment and manual handling issue is one I often hear: a care home has a resident who […]
Care Home Safe holding: Judge concerned with violent dementia patients
The Globe and Mail is reporting about a judge who has asked for mandatory secure units in care homes which look after people with dementia who present with violent behaviour. Speaking in Canada, the judge said that the number of people who suffer from dementia-related cognitive impairment is rising sharply and that there must be […]
Restraint Training: Managing Distress and using force to clean a resident
Where an older person in care is soiled and needs the attention of care staff to get cleaned up, but resists verbally and physically (sometimes combatively) their efforts to do so, then we believe it is important that every step of the process to manage this scenario is managed in a clear, ordered and auditable way. […]