Breakaway Training in the UK
Introduction
Breakaway training, also known as physical intervention training or self-defence training, is a structured program designed to teach individuals techniques to safely and effectively manage aggressive behavior or physical confrontation in the workplace. Its significance varies across different workplace environments, including:
- Healthcare Settings: Breakaway training is crucial in healthcare settings where staff may encounter aggressive or violent behavior from patients or visitors. Healthcare workers need to know how to protect themselves and others while maintaining the safety and dignity of all involved.
- Education Institutions: Teachers, school administrators, and support staff often deal with challenging behaviors from students. Breakaway training equips them with strategies to safely manage disruptive or violent incidents in classrooms or school premises.
- Security and Law Enforcement: Security personnel and law enforcement officers require breakaway training to effectively handle hostile situations and restrain individuals without causing harm to themselves or others.
- Customer Service and Retail: Employees in customer-facing roles may encounter irate or aggressive customers. Breakaway training helps them de-escalate conflicts and safely manage difficult situations to prevent harm to themselves, other customers, or property.
- Social Services: Professionals working in social services, such as child protection or mental health support, may face confrontational or violent situations when dealing with clients or service users. Breakaway training enables them to respond appropriately while minimizing risk.
- Corporate Environments: In corporate settings, breakaway training can be beneficial for employees who work in high-stress or volatile environments, such as security personnel in sensitive facilities or executives traveling to potentially risky areas.
- Social Care: In social care settings staff can often encounter challenging behaviour for their service users, visitors, or members of the public. NNTC breakaway training would be beneficial for these staff as our training reflects the caring values of your organisation and includes no holding techniques.
- Housing: Breakaway training is suitable for both general needs and supported housing staff.
The significance of breakaway training lies in its ability to:
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Enhance personal safety
Participants learn techniques to protect themselves from physical harm during confrontational situations.
Minimize risk
By providing individuals with strategies to de-escalate conflicts and safely restrain aggressive individuals, breakaway training helps minimize the risk of injury or harm to all parties involved.
Promote confidence
Training empowers individuals with the skills and confidence to effectively manage challenging situations, leading to better outcomes and reduced stress.
Ensure legal compliance
In many industries, employers have a legal obligation to provide a safe working environment for their employees. Breakaway training helps organizations fulfil this duty by equipping staff with the necessary skills to handle aggression or violence appropriately.
Overall, breakaway training plays a vital role in creating safer workplaces and protecting the well-being of employees and stakeholders across various industries.
Our Approach to Breakaway Training
- All our courses are tailored to reflect the needs and values of our clients. The course focuses as much on prevention of violence and aggression as it does escape techniques. The techniques are taught as a last resort and emphasises the importance of situational awareness, positive behaviour management and verbal and nonverbal de-escalation techniques.
- The course is taught in a student-centred interactive style with the emphasis on building confidence and not fear. The techniques taught have been well researched and are safe and ethical. With our methods there is no intent to harm the other person; The main aim is to use simple movements to extricate yourself from a grab or hold or to use to defend against an assault, in order to get away from the situation.
- The course can be accredited by OCNCredit4Learning. Alternatively certificates can be provided if requested.
What Our Breakaway Training Covers
INTRODUCTION
- This introduction gets delegates talking about personal safety and begins to raise awareness of potential risks from the behaviour of clients and others.
- Housekeeping
- Aims and Outcomes are discussed.
SITUATIONAL AWARENESS
- This session gets the delegates to identify some of the potential risks to their personal safety using a P.E.T. Assessment (Person, Environment, Task)..
- It also helps delegates identify some of the underlying causes which may be triggering aggressive behaviour.
- It also helps delegates identify some of the underlying causes which may be triggering aggressive behaviour.
DYNAMIC RISK ASSESSMENT
- The importance of awareness
- Detecting early warning signs of aggression and violence
- Where appropriate discussing triggers to aggression
- Recognising different levels of aggression
MANAGING ANXIETY
This session is all about recognising the impact adrenalin can have on our body language, our thinking and our behaviour, how this can impact upon the outcome of a conflict situation and the importance of remaining in control and professional in the face of aggression. It is also important to point out at this stage that one of the effects of aggression is that our heart rate increases to over 145bpm when we are under threat at this stage our ability to use finer motor skills is impaired, but the use of our major muscle groups increased.
DE-ESCALATION STRATEGIES
This session will allow delegates to share best practice in:
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- Creating an environment to reduce emotional distress and or remove triggers.
- Using de-escalation techniques to calm an angry individual.
REASONABLE FORCE
Delegates will learn how the laws relating to reasonable force relate to their work
SAFETY ON THE COURSE
Delegates learn the importance of safety on the course by:
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- Completing a Health Questionnaire
- Listening to A Safety Briefing
BREAKAWAY TECHNIQUES PRACTICAL SESSION
Delegates will practice the following movements (if relevant):
- Basic Defense Stance
- Personal space
- Handshake
- Wrist Grabs
- Arm Grabs
- Clothing Grabs
- Hair Pulls
- Bites
- Grabs to the throat
- Headlocks
- Bear Hugs
- Punches and Kicks
Benefits of Our Breakaway Training
- Enhanced safety for both employees and clients/customers/Service Users
- Reduction in injuries and liability risks
- Improved confidence and preparedness in handling physical confrontations
- Compliance with UK regulations regarding restraint and intervention
Why Choose NNTC for Breakaway Training?
- NNTC Has been delivering Breakaway Instructor training programs for over 12 years.
- The NNTC Breakaway Instructor Training Course has been delivered to the NHS, Social Care, Housing and Probation Industries.
FAQs
What are the pre-requisites for the course?
None
Do you have to be physically fit to attend this course?
No – the physicality is minimal
Do you run public courses for an individual to attend?
No
Is there a refresher course?
Yes – we would recommend every 12 months initially followed by a biannual refresher
Will there be an exam?
No – assessment is made by tutor observation
Would your trainer travel to us?
Yes
What is the Maximum Number of Delegates allowed on the course?
12
What materials will I receive from the course?
A handout is available on request
Is there a reduction in fees for charitable organisations?
Yes
What should delegates wear for the course?
Comfortable clothing. We do not insist that delegates wear tracksuit and trainers but to wear the clothes they carry out their duties in providing its not a tight skirt and high heels!
