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 ++ MAY 2008 ++ Industry Bodies Back Physical Intervention Standard Recent press articles have highlighted increases in violence in the workplace and Skills for Security, along with other major industry associations, is concerned over staff and customer safety. With reported cases of staff being attacked and customers being injured it is now more important than ever to consider Physical Intervention training. Recent case law has shown that a lack of credible physical intervention training for those responsible for dealing with non-compliant or aggressive people leaves staff, service users and employers at risk of harm, prosecution and substantial compensation claims. Maybo, BIIAB and Skills for Security offer a unique physical intervention programme that provides employers and their staff, insurers and customers, with confidence in this area of significant risk, by teaching trainers how to deliver Physical Intervention training to staff who may find themselves having to escort people from premises. The programme provides trainers with the means of delivering training in key knowledge and safer methods of intervention for risk situations. Employers and training providers can then deliver the new programme under license through their qualified internal trainers. The training increases staff knowledge of the law, key medical risks and safer methods for common activities such as ejection. It helps staff to assess situations and use alternatives to physical intervention whenever possible. Feedback shows that staff trained in the Maybo model are more confident as a result of the training and are now using physical intervention less often and with less force. Bill Fox, of Maybo said: ‘The SIA and ACPO-endorsed guidance publication on physical intervention and case law, demonstrates that where physical intervention is foreseeable staff need to be taught legitimate and safe methods. The dilemma for employers has been where to source credible, accredited training in an area of significant risk’. Steve Dennis, Head of Business Development for BIIAB added: ‘The diversity of the organisations which have taken on this training clearly demonstrates the challenges faced by those working in security and enforcement roles. We are delighted to be able to support Maybo and Skills for Security in continuing to maintain and improve standards in this crucial area.’ The programme is offered at two levels: disengagement with guiding skills and holding skills. Many security guarding functions do not require physical skills and some need just the lower level skills for avoiding assault. Higher risk roles, where there may be a need to restrain, need the full programme; examples are response teams, door supervisors and certain retail and hospital roles. An off-duty doorman was left '10 minutes from death' following a sickening attack on a night out in Blackpool. The 22-year-old was chased through the town centre before being punched and kicked unconscious by four men. He was found 20 minutes later in a pool of blood. Source of information http://www.prosecurizine.com A man has been jailed for seven years after he attacked a bouncer with a machete outside a pub in Cumbernauld. Source of information http://www.prosecurizine.com New Website Launch A revamped Tactical Training Services Ltd website! Thanks to Blaze Solutions Limited. Please feel free to comment on the new look! Security guards, making a collection from a supermarket cash machine, have been threatened by a man with a handgun. The man took money from the guards at the Asda store in Sittingbourne , Kent before fleeing. Source of information http://www.conflictprofessional.com ++ 02.05.07 ++ Dave with Geoff Capes Ex Worlds Strongest Man at the Safer Doors Conference 2007 |
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