Restraint Training: Control Phase and Restraint Phase Differences
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Restraint Training: Floor-Based Restraint Controversy
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 […]
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, that we have been asked to run another one in 2015 and the dates […]
Restraint Training: Claim for injury during realistic training failed
A Scottish legal news website is reporting on an interesting case of a prison officer who sued the Scottish government for a breach of duty of care when she was injured during riot training, but lost her case. In September 2010 she attended a one-day “control and restraint” training course, which involved a “simulated prison riot”, […]