For a practitioner to achieve a reasonable CSI chartered status there are many fundamental areas that are good to have a basic understanding of. With this CTU table below, where could improvements be made with regards to its content accuracy?
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With so much valued work being carried out about workplace wellbeing, it is equally important to remember your plan of how to communicate these thoughts. I for one, even after reading the entirety of books on such topics there are still only core themes that I then take from that collection of thoughts. One key question is, how do you measure the effectiveness of your messages?
Your wellbeing plan can focus on your core values. For me this is for each employee to see and be supported with: improving emotional intelligence, work-life interest balance, social effectiveness, clear visions and inclusive development strategies. Throughout our public sectors there are several initiatives, by pulling these together you can then understand the core factors. North Bristol NHS Trust won awards this year for the most improved wellbeing campaign. This stemmed from implementing an extensive employee programme. What was also key was that the leaders and their teams showed solidarity, agreeing that these changes were making a positive difference. From a leader’s point of view, it is important to ensure that this success continues. This is assisted by knowing your core values that will enable the campaign to progress through time. A short YouTube video here provides a comment from the North Bristol NHS Trust. Widley across the internet there is a multitude of sources of information. Quite rightly though the argument is whether many of those can be trusted and for this reason often negated by many. However as with this article that I share below there are still key thoughts that can be taken from such unknown sources. A good point made here is that for example you were investigating a burial crime scene and you wanted to see whether there was any links back to a suspects spade that you locate at their home address, then it is good practise to sample the suspects home soil type to act as an elimination sample. This could assist interpretation later. This also puts into perspective that if you have a decomposition site along a river side it would of course be good practise to consider how the variance of soil relates to one another ie. suspects shoes and trousers, to the victim’s shoes and upper top. If the scenario was as we would predict each soil sample would be the same except for the upper top of the victim because of the final laying site further along the river side. This could provide an insight into the event that took place. Small details like this can make a significant difference later.
Another good thought here is of a ‘systematic sampling approach’. We are all very good at this for other situations that we come across. Have confidence, make your approach clear as with everything we do so that it could be explained in Court easily. Most importantly that even when being very proactive with CPD remember who your experts are and contact them to discuss the scene and situation you face. The points that they raise as well as your professional awareness will make the agreed steps ahead more logical. Original article can be accessed here at Nist.gov they have also released a short Youtube video shown here. A final thought, how could you relate this to the scene shown within this Tweet by @PC_HeadofOps here A closer look into diversity and equality. Diversity within the workplace, ensuring inclusivity too.4/4/2020 Statistics do not currently include how inclusive organisations are. Innovation is the centre piece of much of our work and by embracing that we will then find how important it is to include everyone that engages with the steps we are looking to take forwards. Have you heard the term ‘creative abrasion’? When inclusivity is overlooked, we can miss opportunities for development, staff turnover can increase too. A great quote here of: “Empathy and respect are what all employees want from their employers, supervisors and colleagues”, Alper leroux said, “people then tend to give their best and be creative”. It is this high-performance potential that interests me with this core theme of Professional Management covered throughout ForensicLeadership.
Russ Banham, 2018, Risk Management sourced 03/04/20 from http://www.rmmagazine.com/2018/06/01/the-benefits-of-diversity-inclusion-initiatives/ This topic was sourced from CMI Direct Resources. Here I discuss some fundamental points, in quick succession. Acronyms are used purposefully to further test readers understanding of this topic.
Nanometres (NM) are millionths of millimetres hence why we refer to wavelengths in the units of (nm). Visible light using the human eye is 400 to 760 nm. Shorter wavelengths are of UV at 210 to 400 nm, and longer wavelengths of IR at 750 to 900 nm. X-ray even shorter at 0.1 nm (therefore this is used within clinical settings too i.e. fracture examinations within SUID cases). Much of what we see is because of those wavelengths being reflected through our eyes and our cameras, black colours are therefore absorbed wavelengths and florescence is molecular excitement. UV typically is absorbed by the human epidermis and dermis layers, whereas visible light and IR protrude further into the subcutaneous. This difference is why UV is best suited for soft tissue damage injuries and marks. Our skin cells are diffuse, so this is also why UV injury photography is best suited for injuries made by distinct shaped objects. Our physiology is the reason why there is a time delay before UV should be used to photograph injuries and an expiry time for their use due to the inflammation and repair processes respectively. Of course, in situations where the repair process no longer takes place then the skin cell damage can be seen for however long the body is available to be observed. The clarity of photographs taken will depend on a few factors including skin thickness, amount of keratinization, the wavelength and film choice to name a few. What this leads to is the understanding that when completing injury photos be equipped with several tools if they are available to you and try some different settings to grasp a greater understanding of their impact. Remember that each body area photographed will lend itself to a different result because of the skin layers present. One last thought is of which standards do you also utilise within your camera settings. Fixed 35mm lenses have been used consistently, this assists with preventing barrel distortion and ISO 100-400 because these film speeds and sensitivity allow greater enlargement of the images maintaining good clarity and sharpness when required. One of the reasons why IR cannot be recorded by our cameras is because very few have the optimum ISO setting available of 25-64. Would anyone else like to add some photography CPD to this article, if so, add comments below. |