The context and risks of Positive Handling in Schools
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Positive handling in schools sits at the intersection of duty of care, legal obligation, and day-to-day classroom reality. Staff are expected to manage challenging behaviour safely but without proper context and training, the risks multiply quickly. Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis […]
Training Lone Workers: Who should go on the visit?
Training Lone Workers: Who Should Go on the Visit? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Training lone workers sometimes means making sure they carefully decide whether a visit should go ahead — and how many people should attend. Sometimes, client history means no visit at all. In a rough-cut […]
Safe Holding Training – Manage Distress – Scotland
The Challenge of Distressed Behaviour in Care Gerard O’Dea, our Director of Training, was recently asked to provide an opinion on how care homes in Scotland can deal with the issues of distressed, difficult, or dangerous behaviours when caring for older people in their services — sometimes known as Safe Holding Training. In this long-format […]
Lone Social Worker Abducted and Abused
Three teenagers who abducted and attacked a trainee social worker on a home visit have been jailed for a total of five years. The case raises urgent questions about whether lone worker safety training is keeping pace with the risks faced by frontline staff. The Attack Holly Loudoun, 23, was forced to her knees and […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
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Personal Safety Tips for Lone Workers (or anyone)
Our clients sometimes ask our Dynamis Team to deliver training on general personal safety for Lone Workers or in our specialised Violence Prevention clinics for Survivors of Abuse. Here are 12 of our key personal safety tips, drawn from our Self-Protection Trainer Certification manual. 12 Essential Personal Safety Tips 1. Body Language Matters Certain behaviours […]
Risks of Lone Working
The Reality of Lone Working A Royal College of Nursing study dealing with the issues of lone working and personal safety surveyed about 1,500 nurses who work in the community. The findings reveal serious gaps in how organisations protect their lone workers. 📊 RCN Survey findings: Almost two-thirds of community staff said their employers did […]
Case Study: Foster Carers Training
The Training Challenge A foster agency, contracted to the local authorities in its area, was receiving requests from its foster families to have training in the use of physical interventions. Families wanted clarity on the rules regarding this area and asked us for Foster Carers Training. The fostering agency maintained strong links to the local […]
Hospital Violence Reduction and SCARF Triggers
Why do patients and visitors become aggressive in emergency departments? Often, the answer lies not in the individual but in the environment — and how staff manage the five core social triggers first identified by neuroscience. The Information Gap In a MORI opinion poll, patients indicated that they want to feel a close presence of […]
Throwback Thursday: Restraint Chair in Oman
During a trip to the middle east back in 2010 to visit with a number of psychiatric institutions and hospitals to give advice and training, I recall being shown the ‘restraint chair’ in the picture at one of the units I visited. I remember being quite surprised at the sight. Even though I was aware of […]