Control and Restraint / Safe Holding Training

Description of Units

Day 1

Provides learners with the knowledge of the basic working principals of English Law, including the various Health and Safety Sections and associated Regulations, in relation to the use of physical restraint. The unit also covers the risk associated with physical restraint and how to minimise those risks through risk assessment and awareness and compliance with regulations

Day 2

Develops the skills and knowledge required to enable learners to safely apply appropriate and effective methods of restraint using primarily non harmful methods of control. More restrictive methods of control can be taught where there is a higher risk environment

Summary of outcomes

To achieve the outcomes a student must:

1. Understand the Law in relation to the use of physical restraint.
2. Evaluate the risks associated with physical restraint and consider methods to reduce the risks.
3. Demonstrate non-harmful methods of control and how to safely apply them
4. Where required demonstrate more restrictive methods of control and when they should be used

Course Programme

• Introduction to workplace violence
• Basic LAW
• The Childrens Act (If required)
• Health & Safety at Work Legislation
• Human Rights Acts
• The use of your communication skills to prevent restraint wherever possible
• Positional asphyxia risks
• Non-harmful methods of control
• Teamwork: Contact and Cover 
• Restrictive methods of control
• Controlled take down and up
• Demonstration of techniques that should not be used

The company has also been accorded ICM Quality Award Centre status (QAC Registration Number QAC2022) which means that all physical breakaway skills have been risk assessed and have fulfilled the criteria set out by the ICM Quality Award