The use of pain compliance on children is an emotive subject, it is contentious and one that many organisations fail when issuing legally robust policy and guidance. NFPS has covered this subject in previous publications and links to these will be given at the end of this post. Of course, applying pain to a child is the absolute last thing … Read more
Ms Barwell, a 54-year-old grandmother was kicked twice at Blackfriars Crown Court in 2015 during the restraint of a prisoner in custody. She died from brain injuries caused by the second blow. Ms Barwell had worked for Hampshire-based security firm Serco for 10 years when the attack took place. The incident led to an investigation by the Health and Safety … Read more
A veteran paramedic ambulance worker who was assaulted by a 14 year-old was awarded £49,000 by an industrial tribunal after he was wrongfully dismissed for gross misconduct by his employer for allegedly assaulting a 14 year old who had attacked him. In August 2021 Mr Edwards, a senior paramedic with 18 years service was attending a call. It involved … Read more
That is the crux of an email just sent to me based on what someone was told by a trainer.
They mentioned how an organisation respected a handcuffed patients dignity whilst reducing the risk of anger, aggression and violence thus reducing the need for a restrictive physical intervention.
I have been getting asked a lot about my views on staff donning ppe so that they can restraint patients/service users, etc.
Restraint and Covoid-19 Risk Assessment – Please Share and Help Me Save a Life I don’t know if you are aware but I have put together a risk assessment to help staff who are still at work, especially those staff who may be expected to physically control and restrain someone who may become violent, and as a result are exposing … Read more
Below the video is some correspondence that I have received from someone regarding running restraint (pmva) training courses during this covid19 pandemic. My response to that is below their communication and directly below is a video because this is so important.
Covid-19 & Physical Restraint Risk Assessment I have been getting a lot of questions lately such as: “What do we do is we have to physically restrain someone and they deliberately cough or spit at us?” Therefore, I have put a risk assessment together to help anyone who needs it, which you can access here – restraintandcovid19.nfps.info/optin-page-ra-2020 Please watch the … Read more
The above is the headline of an exclusive article in HSJ Magazine that was published on the 18th December 2019 by Matt Discombe.
In that article Mr Discombe highlights that the HSE have carried out inspections at 20 health and care providers after three health workers in the last five years have died after being assaulted by patients.
Over the last few weeks and months I’ve been talking about the importance of risk assessments and if you like to see an interview I did with a very senior and well-respected Health & Safety Professional, watch the video below and then click here – https://markdawes.clickfunnels.com/optin30563652