Training for Restraint:: Things to avoid doing #4
The accompanying images in this post are of something that has been referred to as a ‘Therapeutic Floor Hold’ in some training materials. It consistutes, in our view, inappropriate restraint. The (usually) vulnerable person who is being restrained is first taken to the floor – often through the use of some kind of unbalancing […]
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. In our 9 attitudes methodology from Functional Edge System, we understand that the key phases of any physical confrontation are: 1) Survival (staying conscious, upright and ‘with it’) 2) Reversal (slowing or stopping […]
Hospital Violence Reduction – Internal Security Officers
Staff in one hospital we worked in reported to us that they had variable success in securing assistance from Security Guards when incidents become critical. We ourselves experienced communication difficulties (mainly a language barrier) with Security Guards several times during our visit which may contribute to this apparent lack of cooperation or coordination. Certainly in other […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council assault by elderly resident on carer
A care assistant has had to take medical retirement after being attacked by a resident at an old people’s home in Middlesbrough. The UNISON member, who was employed by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, has now received over £57,000 compensation after an eight year legal battle. Her job was looking after elderly male residents with […]
Care Home Safe Holding: Care Home elderly resident assault
A grandmother who was forced to quit her career as a care worker after an attack by an aggressive patient, has been awarded a £12,500 out of court payout. The UNISON member, identified as Mrs Hunt, was held in a headlock and punched by an elderly patient, Jack Tooby, in September 2005. The care home […]
Care Home Safe Holding: 83-year old resident strapped to bed to stop her ‘wandering’
Probe into care home abuse claims From the BBC at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-11618789 25 October 2010 Police are investigating claims that an elderly woman was tied to a bed at a care home in Glasgow. It had been reported that the 84-year-old woman was allegedly restrained at the Baillieston Care Home. Five members of staff at the home […]