We provide prevention and management of aggression training, nationally and internationally, for staff working in high risk environments, including:

• Health Care Facilities
• Educational Facilities
• Airport Facilities
• Industrial Facilities
• Corporate Facilities

The specialised control and restraint training will provide staff with ethical and effective prevention strategies, physical and psychological self-defence manoeuvres, disengagement skills and standard therapeutic holds to respond individually or as a team in the management of aggression.

TECHNIQUES

The disengagement and control and restraint techniques are derived from Tai Chi Chuan and taught within a safe, legal and ethical framework. They are recognised techniques that maximise the safety and protect the dignity of all concerned.

DISENGAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
These are specific self-defence techniques that provide individual staff with psychological and physical manoeuvres to disengage and escape safely from the aggressive situation or potentially aggressive situation.

CONTROL AND RESTRAINT TECHNIQUES (Used as a last resort.)
These techniques are a series of therapeutic holds that provide staff with an organised and systematic approach using physical manoeuvres to safely control and restrain the aggressive client.

All techniques are designed within a legal and ethical framework.

PRINCIPLES OF CONTROL AND RESTRAINT
Our techniques have a high potential for control and a low potential for injury. However, injuries may still occur because of the human factors of misapplication, miscalculation and excessive force.

Body part isolation limits the subject access to weapons (natural and carried).

We use techniques that have a high control potential and limit confrontations to a single location. The control and restraint techniques we use incorporate unbalancing and mechanical advantage as the primary response, not pain compliance.

• Balance displacement
• Leverage
• Body part isolation
• Low injury potential techniques

The training curriculum places great emphasis to reflect and over represent prevention methodology as priority and that control and restraint techniques are only used as a last resort.

WHY CHOOSE US

Many courses offer general advice and techniques with no regard to a client's needs or situations relevant to their workplace. The instructors are experienced in both relevant theory presentation and hands-on instruction. Our courses provide a unique learning experience designed to suit all levels of needs and workplace situations.

Courses can build and instil confidence and awareness in staff. The outward projection of this elevated state of confidence and awareness is enough in many instances to prevent and de-escalate potential violent situations.

Our courses are structured with carefully designed modules that interlock to provide a total training package from confrontation management and de-escalation, threat recognition and avoidance through to defensive tactics to deal with high level life-threatening situations.

The success of these training packages comes from the teaching of a limited number of easy to learn, easy to retain, extremely effective techniques and applying these techniques to suit a large number of situations.

BALANCED APPROACH

In the development of our prevention strategies, disengagement and restraint techniques we have looked at best practice models, target population, programme components, resource implications and implementation and evaluation processes. By incorporating disengagement and control and restraint principles of Tai Chi Chuan, we now offer a comprehensive and advanced control and restraint training system

BENEFITS

Specialised control and restraint training will provide staff with ethical prevention strategies, disengagement skills and standard therapeutic holds to respond individually or as a team to manage immediate or potential risks of aggression.

• Staff will have a high level of confidence in the techniques learned
• Positive and significant changes to staff knowledge and behaviour reflecting evidenced based practice
• Prevention and reduction of client aggression
• Aggressive client will receive optimum care
• Control and Restraint will be undertaken in a therapeutic structured way
• Decrease in number of untrained restraint related psychological/physical injuries to clients and staff
• A reduction in potential work cover claims related to physical and/or psychological trauma
• A decrease in both the number of assault related injuries and assault related sick leave

COURSES

In development of the courses we looked at best practice models, target population, programme components, resource implications and implementation and evaluation processes.

The courses we offer are contemporary, dynamic, tailored to your unique needs

Practical Techniques:

• Dealing with personal space, location and physical distance factors
• Demonstrate disengagement and safe escape techniques
• Demonstrate therapeutic control and restraint techniques using teams.
• Defence against physical attacks standing and on the ground
• Defence against weapons

The physical environment and individual training needs of each facility will determine the content, intensity and duration of specialised course components

Courses Available:

Level 1 - PERSONAL SAFETY IN THE WORKPLACE

This is our introductory course designed to give staff the basic psychological and physical manoeuvres for de-escalating and avoiding potentially aggressive situations.

The course is designed for:

• Reception staff
• Administration staff
• Staff working challenging behaviours
• Traffic wardens
• Teachers
• Ticket inspectors
• Health Environment Officers

Duration: 3 Hours
Cost: Price on application

Level 2 - CONTROL AND RESTRAINT

This is our intermediate course designed for staff who already have high-level skills in de-escalating and prevention techniques in the management of aggression but require the specialised physical restraint skills.

The course is designed for:

• Health care staff
• Hospitality staff
• Educational staff
• Correctional staff
• Cabin crew

Duration: 2 days

Cost: Price on application