Archive for the Self-defence Category

October 31, 2011 / Legislation, Physical restraint, Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / PBrereton

Death in Custody – Police to be held to account

Changes to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 have come into force recently mean that any death whilst in custody comes within the remit of this act. This means that not only t

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October 24, 2011 / Conflict Management, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips / PBrereton

Don’t be a fool…personal safety tips

The news is full of stories about attacks on people here’s just a few... ...a chef attacked one of his staff in a rage after renowned food critic AA Gill reported that his meal was ‘disgustingâ

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August 8, 2011 / Conflict Management, Legislation, NHS, News, Personal Safety, Physical restraint, Self-defence, Tips / Darren Good

Get out of that. Wrist releases….

A friend of mine was telling me about an article he’d read on a solicitor's website about a care-worker who had won damages as a result of her claim for personal injury when a patient she was dealin

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July 26, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, Legislation, NHS, News, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Violence / Darren Good

Company Directors charged under Corporate Manslaughter Act

I’ve been reading a few blogs recently about Lion Steel Ltd.who are the second company to be charged under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 since its implementation. This i

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July 12, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, News, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips / Darren Good

Practical approaches to protecting yourself

The News of the World scandal  has dominated the press this week and served to warn us just how difficult personal privacy is and yet it's something we all take as a personal right. We all do as muc

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June 27, 2011 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, News, POLITE Model, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Everyday conflict management

I was doing a fun run with my 14 year old son at the weekend and it reminded me how ever present the potential for conflict is. It started with the usual heated debate with my wife as we were rushing

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June 7, 2010 / Body Language, Personal Safety, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Attack rituals – We need to trust our instincts if we are to avoid being attacked

All killers go through an attack ritual before they start their attack – I have talked at length about these types of rituals before on the blog. In my previous post I talked about the three types o

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May 19, 2010 / Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Positional Asphyxia and how not to restrain someone?

There was a sad story in the media this week about a shoplifter who unfortunately died in police custody. These stories are always sad and I don’t know how the person in this particular case died bu

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May 14, 2010 / Conflict Management, Conflict Resolution, Good Sense News, Self-defence / Darren Good

Can e-learning courses help in conflict resolution? The pros and cons

In my opinion, e-learning does have a place in Conflict Resolution Training but its not the panacea. At GoodSense we do offer a number of e-learning courses which help fill a gap and give someone a

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May 5, 2010 / Prison Service, Self-defence, Tips, Violence / Darren Good

Prison officers deserve regular good quality self defence training

The recent shocking and violent attack in Armley prison on a prison officer tells me that the officers are still very vulnerable in what is still a very dangerous job. He was reportedly looking after

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