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Stress and Mental Health Pandemic

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Stress and Mental Health Pandemic

The UK is Experiencing a Deepening Stress and Mental Health and Pandemic – But Is There a Solution?  The Problem The recent covid pandemic, associated lockdown periods of isolation, the impact that has had on employment (people losing their jobs and businesses as companies struggled), plus many other variables, has seen an increase in mental health related issues.  In the … Read more

Single Person Restraint – An Accident Waiting to Happen

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Single Person Restraint - An Accident Waiting to Happen

Single Person Restraint – An Accident Waiting to Happen! I regularly meet staff who have been taught to physically intervene on their own, who are totally unaware of the risks associated with the intervention or aware of the fact that what they are being asked to do is a lone working activity. The usual excuse is that it is needed … Read more

Private Security Company Fined After an Employee Suffered Life-Changing Injuries Following Attack At a Young Offenders Training Facility

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Private Security Company Fined After an Employee Suffered Life-Changing Injuries Following Attack At a Young Offenders Training Facility.

This is another example of someone receiving life-changing injuries because they were put in a lone working situation where there was a foreseeable risk that hadn’t been suitably controlled.

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HSE, TUC & CBI Joint Statement on Covid 19

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As you know I have been putting out risk assessment information relating to Covid 19 and Physical Restraint in lieu of anything that may or may not be forthcoming from Public Health England and you can access that resource on our website if you haven’t done so already.

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