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Monitoring challenging behaviour
TPS's Health & Safety Committee meet to develop, promote, monitor and amend where appropriate health and safety management systems. They do this through analysing accident and incidents, collating best working practices, monitoring the effectiveness of training and the impact of new legislation.
A working group was set up in January 2007 to examine the statistics held on violence and aggression in order to scrutinise reports and suggest possible strategies to alleviate numbers of incidents.
TPS's health and safety's accident and incident software is a sophisticated reporting system which allows figures to be analysed and correlated to look at specifics such as time trends of incidents.
Statistics
The following table details the number of incidents within TPS homeless services for the period May 2005 to December 2007:
|
Guildry House |
Link Up |
Moving On |
Midway |
PITSTOP |
Total |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total no. incidents = |
67 |
50 |
6 |
9 |
168 |
300 |
|
Of which minor |
51 |
30 |
3 |
6 |
156 |
246 |
|
Of which moderate |
7 |
12 |
0 |
0 |
7 |
26 |
|
Of which major |
6 |
6 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
19 |
|
Of which property |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
6 |
|
Primary cause |
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|
Alcohol related |
20 |
12 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
33 |
|
Attack/assault |
3 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
12 |
|
Self harm |
4 |
7 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
13 |
|
Violence & aggression |
14 |
24 |
2 |
7 |
5 |
52 |