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New Year Resolutions
Habits

Triggering – Making Habits and New Year Resolutions Stick

Life Skills – Habitualising your New Year Resolutions By the time you read this post you may have already failed in your New Year Resolution.  If so, you will not be alone.  Research by ABC News in the US suggested that 80% of us will fail in this regard, other Read more…

By John Collicutt, 1 year1 January 2024 ago
Personal Responsibility

5 tips every Head Teacher should give to their pupils before the summer holidays

Banner photo by Sam Balye on Unsplash 5 tips every Head Teacher should tell their pupils before the Summer With the summer holidays a matter of days away, every Head Teacher will be looking to wish their pupils a safe and happy summer break.  Unfortunately we should not take for granted that all Read more…

By John Collicutt, 2 years10 July 2023 ago
Decision Making

The Psychology of Security – an intro

Developing Skills to help you Succeed We’re changing the way we do things this year.  Every Tuesday we will be publishing a blog post to help you develop your security approach as an individual and someone responsible for others.  Some posts will be skills to practice others will be about Read more…

By John Collicutt, 2 years10 January 2023 ago
Personal Security

Take your time, it’s hot.

How to keep control of your emotions as the weather boils As the UK issues its first ever red warning for extreme heat, experts have regularly warned of the physical risk to ourselves, our animals and, our properties, all brought about by this unusual burst of heat.  But, the affects Read more…

By John Collicutt, 3 years19 July 2022 ago
Street Safe Awareness
Crime

Street Safe Awareness: One New Year’s Resolution Which May Save Your Life

It’s nearly the New Year and driven by positive intent, many of us will be thinking about where we are in our lives and what we want to achieve in the next year.  Will we change jobs, study for that extra qualification, finally do that marathon, learn Spanish or lose Read more…

By John Collicutt, 3 years31 December 2021 ago
Crowd Safety
Crowds

What you must know to stay safe in a crowd

Eight die in concert crowd On 5th November 2021 the crowd at the Astroworld music festival in Houston Texas suddenly surged forward.  Within minutes, eleven people suffered cardiac arrests through the crushing of the bodies.  Although emergency services were able to recover them from the crowd, eight subsequently died of Read more…

By John Collicutt, 4 years8 November 2021 ago
Personal Responsibility

As the Pubs re-open, top tips to keep you safe

This Saturday, 4 July 2020, pubs will re-open across England.  In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland this event will take place in the next few weeks. Alongside this much welcomed news there is an appeal for calm celebration, as police forces across England announce they will deploy additional patrols. It Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years3 July 2020 ago
7 Ideas to help you Stay Alert
Coronavirus

7 ways to help you “Stay Alert”

“Stay Alert” is the new formal government advice for our next stage of the Coronavirus outbreak. It’s common sense some say, while others hold their hands up and exclaim they don’t know what that means. Well, in a world where we had to be re-taught how to wash our hands, Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years13 May 2020 ago
The art of active listening helps to resolve conflict
Decision Making

How to add active listening to your skills armoury

When your community, or country, comes out of the lockdown there are going to be a lot of people who are greatly relieved to have come out of a very stressful time in their lives. They may already have been exhibiting that stress to you, and even trying to unload Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years11 May 2020 ago
Street Safe Thinking
Abuse

Crime hasn’t gone away, it’s just changing

Since the Coronavirus Lockdown started, crime has changed, and not always in the way we may have expected.  Some news would have it that crime has dropped, and that is a common perception, but this is only partially correct. You are now vulnerable in different ways and you need to Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years1 May 2020 ago
Street Safe Thinking
Coronavirus

5 Ways To Keep You Safe While Exercising During The Coronavirus Outbreak

Across the United Kingdom, everybody is now into self-isolation because of the Coronavirus outbreak. We are all directed to stay at home unless we are key workers, only to leave those homes for essential activities, like shopping, and to exercise once per day. The roads around the country are visibly Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years28 March 2020 ago
Street Safe Thinking
Coronavirus

5 steps to help you avoid Coronavirus Rage

Coronavirus has changed the nature of how the UK operates over a few short weeks and many people are understandably frightened and worried by the huge uncertainty we all face. There has been fighting in the supermarket aisles over toilet rolls. Thousands of businesses have collapsed in 20 days. Tens Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years22 March 2020 ago
Three Pillars of Security
Crime

Three Pillars of Security

or, Why do so many politicians fail to understand where security capacity comes from? Across the United Kingdom there is a common belief that violent crime is a serious growing national problem. While statistics do not always support this belief, perceptions do guide action from those in power. The current Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years14 February 2020 ago
5 Commitments to keep you safe in 2020
Personal Responsibility

5 Commitments to Keep You Safe in 2020

Oh yes, it’s the time of year when we not only pause to celebrate, but also to think about who we are and what we want to be going forward. It’s 2020 New Year Resolution time. Well here’s 5 commitments you can make, from today, which will help you and Read more…

By John Collicutt, 5 years20 December 2019 ago
Street Safe Thinking
Personal Responsibility

5 key habits to keep you safe on your Gap Year

Preparing for the adventure of your life. Taking a gap year and travelling abroad is now more popular than ever. Every year approximately 250,000 18-25 year olds from the UK take some form of gap year. It is seen increasingly as a good thing to do. In fact, did you Read more…

By John Collicutt, 6 years12 November 2019 ago
Grenfell Tower London
Decision Making

Be prepared to challenge authority figures, it’s in your own interest.

We are community people, stronger and far more capable together than apart.  The pack uses the strengths of its individuals to its best interests and shelters less capable more vulnerable members.  Within this context we often sub consciously subscribe to the pack’s ability to make the best safety decisions on Read more…

By John Collicutt, 6 years1 November 2019 ago
Explore the World
Personal Security

When is it safe to travel?

Earlier today the UK government lifted its travel advice against visiting Sharm el Sheikh including the airport and the areas of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq. That’s good news both for tourists and the tourist industry in that area, but it does raise the general Read more…

By John Collicutt, 6 years22 October 2019 ago
Street Safe Thinking
Crime

What on earth is Street Safe Thinking?

Good question. The world has never before presented so much opportunity to so many of us.  We can literally reach across the world to start new businesses, ask for support and build relationships.  Borders and distances which once would have stopped us seem relatively inconsequential, by-passable with a little bit Read more…

By John Collicutt, 6 years18 October 2019 ago
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