In the last post, an informal discussion led to an overview of first responders work, how personal lives are impacted and some potential solutions were considered. In this post we will go on to consider 'duty of care', and what it means to provide a safe learning environment. Policies will be generalized in regards to institutions, and thought about in terms of first responders from different services. Safe learning environments will similarly be viewed without mention of specific healthcare organisations but expanded on to examine andragogy (teaching and training of adults), to think about what adults need to feel safe in a learning environment. We will then go on to examine what we mean by safety, broadening the discourse, thinking about gendered attitudes to safety and what this looks like in real terms (This may form its own post it could be quite broad and extensive). In the last post we raised some intial questions... Can immersive trauma training feel safe for t...
