When shouting is necessary to avoid harm?

dancsfo

I realize it's best to redirect, distract, avoid any actions to lead to failure, but if a PWD is about to cause harm or an accident, it may be necessary to forcefully pull their body or hand away from harm, or shout to stop it. For example, if I look away for a moment, PWD walks inand

a) put hands on a hot stove or

b) decides to take hold of a kitchen knife I left on a chopping board, holds it in a dangerous manner and wants to peel a carrot or start scraping a frying pan with it.

As you know, shouting can cause agitation, anger, or crying.

Fortunately, in some cases, they will forget it within a few moments, so it's as though nothing has happened. I suppose that's a blessing of forgetting.

One tries to gently lead them away but sometimes it's not possible. One trick is that I try to have at hand something that can be done, and hand it to PWD as a last moment "task" and hope the attention goes to that. Example is "will you take this napkin to the dining table". So I always have to be thinking of some alternative task for PWD to do to avert a disaster.

Doing potentially dangerous things in a locked, separate room away from PWD seems to be the way to be safest, but it's not always possible.