Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
In a call to ban prone restraint, a leading mental health charity has suggested that the use of prone restraint is degrading, humiliating and has no place in a civilised modern healthcare system. The charity also linked prone restraint to numerous deaths which have occurred proximal to restraint in a way that suggested it was […]
Near Misses and Violence Risk Management in Restraint Training
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Train to Become a Personal Safety Adviser this October?
Feedback on our trainer-qualification courses has been so strong that this year we are running another self-protection trainer certification in October. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they gained from working on our last instructor course. Candidates have been raving about how much they learned and the enthusiasm they […]
Restraint Training: Claim for injury during realistic training failed
In September 2010, a prison officer attended a one-day control and restraint training course run by the Scottish Prison Service at its Fauldhouse facility in West Lothian. The exercise was a simulated prison riot — full riot gear, metal gates, mock prisoners barricading the doors. She carried a large shield and advanced with her team. […]