Protection from coughing and spitting assaults
Coughing and Spitting AssaultsHow to Protect Yourself From Intentional Coughing and Spitting As a company deeply involved in personal safety training, we watch carefully when new trends emerge in personal safety risk. Since early March 2020 it has become increasingly common to see stories in the news about encounters with people who intentionally use coughing […]
Screech Alarms and Lone Worker Protection
Lone Worker Protection and the Screech Alarm – Beware Bystander Apathy! Using a personal safety “screech”-type alarm might be useful as part of an overall escape strategy in Lone Worker Protection, but it shouldn’t be a psychological crutch. What is the real utility of the siren on a screech alarm? to tell people that you […]
Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale
Ambulance Staff Personal Safety: a cautionary tale Several years ago I was fortunate to be asked to present at a national conference for trainers in the prevention and management of violence and aggression. While I was there, I had the great privilege to hear and record* this talk by “the most violently injured paramedic in […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
Lone Worker Abducted – is your training sufficient? Lone Worker Training may have helped a vulnerable social worker who was abducted and attacked by youths. Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and hit […]
Personal Safety Tips for Lone Workers (or anyone)
Personal Safety Tips for Anyone: Our clients sometimes ask our Dynamis Team to deliver training on general personal safety for Lone Workers or in our specialised and highly developed future-facing Violence Prevention clinics for Survivors of Abuse. Here are 12 of our key personal safety tips, taken from and which form part of our Self-Protection Trainer Certification manual. […]
Reacting more quickly: Stimulus Identification in Breakaway Training
Stimulus Identification is a huge part of being able to respond to it One of the most important factors which influences Reaction Time (RT) and decision-making is the number of possible stimuli the performer must choose from at any given time – each of which may need a distinct response action to be programmed. […]
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 […]
Retail Security Risks and Training in Personal Safety
I read with interest this appalling (but familiar) story about a female security guard being stabbed with a syringe in a Sainsbury’s in Kent. http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/security-guard-stabbed-in-sainsburys-59658/ It seems that the security guard confronted the drug-taking subject as he attempted to steal a bottle of whiskey from the supermarket shelves and make off with it outside the […]
Elderly Care and how to manage aggression and violent behaviour with restraint training
Managing Aggression in Elderly Care We have come across a solicitors case which neatly summarises our points to the management of care homes across the country, which we gratefully re-produce here for posterity: A 75-year-old resident in a care home suffered from dementia. Since arriving at the home four months before the assault, he had committed […]
Restraint Training: Over 50% of NHS Assaults are Impacts
Assault Prevention is a key issue in healthcare and social care environments. In multiple research studies (see Breakaway – a fresh approach?), it has been found that over 50% of assaults on healthcare workers are kinetic: punches, slaps and kicks. Knowing this is important as it allows you to spend the right amount of training […]