Mark Dawes' Podcasts

Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want  Now, for fear of sounding like a Spice Girl, this is a very important question.  

It is important because most people actually don't know what they want.  

At least what they really, really want.  If asked they'll normally say something like .....  "I want more money."  "I want to be more successful."  "I want to be happy."  

But that won't make it happen.  

I'll be covering this and more on the two-day retreat which I am going to be running early in 2023.  

But for now I want to know what you want.  

What would you like in the training during the retreat.  

I was thinking of the following: how to meditate, mindfulness, quantum thinking, mindset, nlp, etc.  

But, what's more important for me is that you get from it what you want.   

What you really, really want.  

So let me know by either leaving a comment below or by messaging me directly.  

And feel free to share this if you wish to.  

I'm on a mission!

You Must Know What You Want If You Want To Be Successful

Energy is Light, Frequency and Information

You can have anything you want in life if you have the ability to use you thoughts to create what you want in your imagination. You also need a few other components, two of which are faith and determination.

If you don’t want to become ill, increase your chance of catching an infectious disease or dying a premature death, read on.

Now that I’ve caught your attention I need to make some admissions.

But I also want to share some very important facts with you too.

So stay with me for a while.

Listen To This If You Are a PI Trainer. Why Mapping Over To Us Makes Sense.

Some of you may be experiencing problems in being able to get a PI (Physical Intervention) Trainer Refresher Course.

Or you may be fed up with the restrictive license conditions imposed by your training provider that you are bound by (which may be costing you lost business opportunities, wasted time and money).

To read the full blog post click here - https://nfps.info/why-mapping-over-to-us-makes-sense/ ‎

This is a podcast about investment.

Not financial investment or property investment.

It is about investment in you and why that is so important.

We're not here for long, so becoming a better person not only helps you bu helps humanity.

Enjoy.

I recently had a conversation with someone who told me that their wife is having to have her neck surgically re-built with bone taken from other parts of her body.

The injury was caused by an eight-year-old child violently pulling the member of staff's hair causing the person's head to jerk back violently.

More recently in the news a teaching assistant who was ‘punched, pinched and kicked’ by a five-year-old boy in her reception class has been awarded £140,000 in compensation.

Now (generally speaking) a five-year-old or eight-year-old child would be classed as a minor and possibly even categorised as vulnerable, due to their young age.

As such, any training given to staff in the schools they attend or the care home they reside in to enable staff to control and restrain them may be 'low-level' training, involving techniques that are designed not to cause any harm to the child.

But where does a member of staff stand if they are violently attacked by a child (someone under the age of eighteen) who may also be under the age of criminal intent (which is 10 years of age in the UK, 12 years of age in Scotland) if the techniques they have been taught don't cater for such an attack?

This is important to know because someone under the age of criminal intent cannot commit a crime in the UK, but they can still behave violently as we can see from the above examples. 

"So if a child is attacking you can you act in self-defence against the child?"

To read the full blog post click here - https://nfps.info/can-you-defend-yourself-against-a-child-who-is-under-the-age-of-criminal-intent-video/

Why The Term 'Least Restrictive' Has Nothing To Do With Physical or Mechanical Restraint.

Every now and then I hear someone stating things like "Staff must use the least restrictive method when restraining a patient" etc.  

Or "any physical intervention must be the least restrictive option", or words to that effect.  

However, those statements are wrong.  

They are wrong because they are being used in the wrong context.  

I do understand the principle, ethics and morality argument.  

No one wants staff rushing in and immediately resorting to high level techniques where they are not required.  But that isn't the point I'm raising here.  

The point is the term "least restrictive" has nothing to do with a physical or mechanical use of force option.  

Let me explain.   

To read the full blog post click here - https://nfps.info/why-the-term-least-restrictive-has-nothing-to-do-with-physical-or-mechanical-restraint/

Don't Blame Staff When You Provide Them With a System With Failure Built in (HSG48)

One of the things that boils my blood is when staff are blamed for something going wrong, when the failure is systematic.

What I mean by that is that the system they are provided with is at fault and/or staff are being given legally incorrect advice and instruction.

The commonly held belief that incidents and accidents are simply and solely the result of 'human error' by the worker themselves is not necessarily true in all cases.

Blaming staff for the accident or error has for many years been 'convenient' for many organisations and also many training providers.

Why? - Simply because they can provide unsafe systems of work or inadequate training and then just blame any failure on the individual member of staff, with statements such as: "If you had applied the technique properly it would have worked".

Latent failures are made by people whose tasks are removed in time and space from operational activities, as opposed to 'active failures' that are usually made by front line staff.

Examples of the types of people involved in latent failures, therefore, could be: trainers, decision makers and managers and typically involve failures in health and safety management systems (design, implementation, monitoring and supervision).

In terms of physical intervention, an 'active failure' could be a member of staff who failed to implement a technique properly, which resulted in a service user or another member of staff being injured or killed.

But what we are finding now, is that the technique or system of intervention was going to fail anyway.

This is primarily because the technique had a high degree of failure built in and was therefore highly unlikely to work in such situations where it is required.

Add to that that:

1. The staff were poorly trained;

2. Given incorrect information and instruction; and

3. The company policy is legally flawed;

4. Creates uncertainty in what the staff can or cannot do when using physical intervention.

These latent failures can result in staff operating from a position of fear and anxiety, as opposed to being operationally competent.

This in turn increase the margin for error by creating an opportunity for an active failure to occur.

According to HSG 48: "Latent failures provide as great, if not a greater, potential for danger to health and safety as active failures.

Latent failures are usually hidden within an organisation until they are triggered by an event likely to have serious consequences".

In virtually every case, if a proper investigation is carried out, these latent failures are uncovered, which will probably admonish the individual of any blame for the error and place the failing at the feet of the organisational management systems that have contributed to the failure.

In designing our courses, we have looked deeply into our responsibility in preparing individuals for what they are being trained to do.

We have looked at the foreseeable human errors that could occur as a result of latent failings and then either eliminated them or reduced the likelihood of them occurring, which is what good health and safety risk management requires.

So, if you'd like to become a trainer in a competent, legally defensible and risk assessed system of restraint check out the webpage here - https://nfps.info/physical-intervention-trainer-course/