Personal Safety Training

Conflict Management in the workplace

Chris — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:53:48 +0000

There are many causes of work place conflict and there are few organisations that do not experience this at some time or other. Causes include poor management, individual anger management problems, stress possibly due to a bad working environment or problems at home this list is not exhaustive. Below is an example of the tragic [...]

Conflict Resolution training

Chris — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:48:49 +0000

What is Conflict Resolution or as it is sometimes called Conflict Management training? Conflict Resolution/Management training courses often cover a wide area. The training usually contains elements of Personal Safety/Lone Working and managing difficult/potentially violent individuals. Conflict Resolution training can also include Disengagement, Breakaway Skills and even Physical Intervention training, e.g. the new door supervisors [...]

Personal Safety when travelling and avoiding car-jacking.

Chris — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 14:01:27 +0000

Lone female being approached in her car Car/ travel safety Fact – we are now much safer in our homes. Modern alarms and double-glazing make breaking into your home far more difficult for would-be burglars. The same is true of cars – modern vehicles are harder to steal. So what do criminals now need to [...]

Conflict Resolution/Management training for teenagers

Chris — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:18:15 +0000

What is Conflict Resolution? Conflict resolution is a general term often used to describe personal safety & managing violence/aggression training courses. Do teenagers need conflict resolution/conflict management skills? The answer is most definitely Yes The facts: The most vulnerable members of society in the UK and many other countries are young men between the ages [...]

Brooks Jordan chosen to deliver ‘Independence Day’ training for St Bede’s School East Sussex

Chris — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:59:20 +0000

Brooks Jordan is working with St Bede’s School in East Sussex to deliver personal safety training to students preparing to leave school for a gap year or to go to university. When St Bede’s first approached Brooks Jordan they asked for breakaway skills training for their year 11 pupils but after the first booking, Senior [...]

Council staff attack figure shock –Report by Natalie Crockett 27 December 2010

Chris — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:39:08 +0000

A Teacher who was stabbed in the chest with a pen by a pupil is one of more than 600 recorded attacks on Gwent council staff in the past two years. Figures released under the Freedom of Information Act show 632 recorded physical attacks on members of staff across the five Gwent councils including Newport, [...]

Teachers to be given training in Personal Safety, Conflict Resolution & Self-defence.

Chris — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:18:38 +0000

Teachers are to receive self-defence lessons to protect themselves from violent pupils Teachers will be taught techniques to restrain violent pupils safely and also how to defuse threatening situations. The aim is to protect teachers and cut the growing number of staff accused of assaulting pupils. Teachers from primary, secondary and special schools will be [...]

Risk Assessment & Dynamic Risk Assessments for the protection of lone workers.

Chris — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:29:00 +0000

Employers are by required by Health & Safety legislation and other supporting legislation to assess the risk of violence as they would any other workplace related potential hazard. This is the beginning or staring point of an objective process that includes control measures; included in this is training. As well as assessing the risk regarding [...]

Lone working & Personal Safety

Chris — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:23:50 +0000

Is lone working more dangerous than working in groups or pair’s? The statisical reasearch show that lone working is no more dangerous than working in pairs or groups. This may surprice you but more Police officers are assualted in custody suites than anywhere else. How can this be they are surrounded by colleagues the offender [...]

Tragic consequences of inappropriate Physical intervention

Chris — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:11:02 +0000

Why good professional physical intervention skills training is so important Shoplifter begged for mercy as guard ‘choked him to death. A shopping centre security guard killed a shoplifter trying to stop him escaping with a bottle of perfume. Aaron Bishop, 23, turned blue and pleaded ‘please help me’ as he was choked by Sam Bawden, [...]