Archive for the ‘Health’ Category
Physical Intervention (Handle with care: managing use of force)
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Below is a very interesting Article by Bill Fox the Chairman of Maybo who we work closely with in the areas of Conflict Management & Physical Intervention.
Both Maybo and ourselves are trying to raise awareness of Workplace Violence and help organisations in all sectors reduce the risk of violence, through realistic and effective training courses.
This subject over the past few years has been thrust into the limelight, becuase incidents are being reported and inclusive of the failures of some managers to provide protection for their staff in high risk occupations. (more…)
Attacks on hospital staff at ‘explosive’ levels: judge
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Attacks on staff at hospitals in Northern Ireland have reached “explosive” levels, a judge has said.
Judge Amanda Henderson made the comments as she imposed a four-month suspended jail sentence on a woman who assaulted two security guards. (more…)
Editors comments about the Increasing Risks faced by Health Staff
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
If you read the article below you will see comments from an editor at the Belfast Telegraph, and even though I agree with everything he says and inclusive of some other points I found about the front page spread in the Belfast Telegraph on 18/10/11, (Assaults in the Heath Care hit 14 assaults a Day) It does not surprise me that 48hrs after the articles and the comments by Minister Edwin Poots that nothing has really moved forward. (more…)
Nurse Assaulted while trying to Help? (Workplace Violence)
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
The below was sent to us by a frustrated Nurse (his quote) here in Northern Ireland, asking us do we think that zero tolerance works in the Health Trusts? (more…)
The member of staff knifed, voiced her concerns prior to attack? Northern Ireland News
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
The below statement was released by the BBC on the on-going incident of the knife attack of a staff member, and we all must agree the stress and strain everyone is feeling must be immense, but this is an increasing problem, (more…)
A woman is stabbed in work: Northern Ireland News
Monday, August 15th, 2011
We have been taken aback by the amount of readers and followers we have generated through our blogs and over such a short period of time, so we will continue to promote the subject of Workplace Violence to help raise awareness, (more…)
Conflict Management Training for the Housing Sector – June 2011
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Conflict Management for the housing sector has always been a favourite with a high degree of our clients, and also because the media are highlighting various areas of this sector. (more…)
‘ATTACKED’ A&E Staff in Poster bid to Halt Violence at Manchester Royal Infirmary
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Below is another hard hitting poster endeavouring to highlight the growing problem of assaults within our emergency services; however will it really work or is this just another fruitless effort to highlight a problem which a high degree of people are facing? (more…)
Care Worker holed up with attacker overnight wins compensation….
Sunday, June 5th, 2011
A frequent reader of our blogs sent this to us today, and we agree that this type of action is happening everyday and yet it still does not make the news as often as it should. (more…)
Hospital staff off for almost a year with ‘work’ illness
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
HOSPITAL staff have had the equivalent of almost a year off over a sixmonth period due to work related illness. (more…)