Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
Floor Based Restraint Controversy 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 have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that […]
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 […]
National Personal Safety Day – Lone Working Book from Dynamis
Lone Working Personal Safety – A guidebook for health and social care workers will give you practical and largely unexplored personal safety advice which will inform and enhance how you make decisions. It will also widen the discussions you have within your team about how you as a group can improve your personal safety systems. […]
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, that we have been asked to run another one in 2015 and the dates […]
This is what a Self-Protection Trainer programme looks like
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