Title – Sitting Hook Restraint
Date – November 2006
Simple restraint techniques are demonstrated by our instructors and then candidates are given the opportunity to practice and experience how it feels to be on the other side of them.
Simplicity is one of our watch words at Beyond The Blue. There is simply no point in trying to teach techniques to individuals over the period of a few hours, that take professionals years to perfect. They will simply not be learned and will give candidates a false sense of security.
Martial arts form the basis to many personal safety courses, the trainers have had a life time of practice and can demonstrate the techniques and make them look easy, but for the candidates attending the course they go home and two days later can’t remember the complicated instructions they were given.
Our instructors also have years of experience and have spent years perfecting the techniques we teach. The big difference is that by concentrating on the technique itself we develop them to be effective, easy to teach and easy to learn. Above all we concentrate on making them easy to remember, so that when you really need to use one it comes back to you as second nature.
There can be no doubt as to how effective the sitting hook restraint is in stopping someone from getting up out of a chair and potentially attacking your friends, colleagues or one of your customers. It can be taught in only a few minutes, practised in 10 and perfected in 15 to 20 minutes.
As part of our Physical Interventions course (PI) we select the techniques most relevant to the clients need.
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Title – Warm up
Date – November 2006
Warming up as a group is a very important part of our health and safety assessment before we carry out any kind of physical activity. Our instructors will before any physical activity is undertaken carry out a risk assessment, identifying any existing injuries and briefing candidates on how to ensure they avoid injuries to themselves and others.
Beyond The Blue runs it courses only with the most thorough health & safety measures in place. The very nature of our low-impact techniques means that strength and force are not required to master them; therefore what can sometimes seem like simulated violence is actually only play acting with no actual strength being used. This philosophy means that injuries are highly unlikely and candidates are perfectly safe under our duty of care.
But despite all the precautions we take we still believe in a substantial warm-up and stretching programme to reduce the risks yet further.
The courses we run include; Physical Interventions (PI); Conflict Management and Resolution (CMR).
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Title – Assist to ground
Date – November 2006
Beyond The Blue tailors its courses directly for specific clients. The technique of how to assist someone to ground in a low-impact manner to avoid injury and to maintain control, is used in areas where staff and individuals work in teams and may need to use extreme measures to restrain an individual in order to prevent further aggression or injury to themselves and others.
Our research prior to any course we run for a new client identifies the techniques that would be appropriate to teach those individuals. We do not simply duplicate courses from one client to another. Our trainers get the most satisfaction from providing a service that actually has a tangible benefit for those attending.
We will often follow up training courses, such as our Physical Interventions course, with refresher training when we can really identify the techniques that have been the most useful and concentrate on developing them further.
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Title – Consultancy meeting
Date – November 2006
Working with individuals on different section of your business allows us to gather appropriate information, meeting the client’s demands and objectives.
Consultancy Projects on many different subjects from Licensed Retail Sector to the Security Industry and Event Management can help or clients develop, review or revamp their business.
Beyond The Blue believes in helps businesses to develop and grow, to provide excellent customer service while expanding income. Working with staff at all levels, allows us to achieve the goals set by the management, shareholders or stakeholders.
Meeting key individuals, we research all the information we require, this can take the form of simple meetings, or our consultancy team actively observing systems and staff in the workplace. Once our recommendations are formulated they can be refined using focus groups and key individuals to ensure that not only will they help provide a positive step forward for your business or organisation, but they will also be successful as your staff will have had an important role in helping to develop the recommendations.
Consultancy projects can take many different forms and specialise in one particular area of your business or organisation or be overarching and cover all your operations.
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Title – Consultancy briefing
Date – November 2006
Consultancy briefings are held following projects to ensure that the client understand the reasons behind the recommendations and advice that we have made. We don’t believe that a project is complete with a simple report.
Just as we expect consultancy projects to involve your staff at all levels, from a senior management all the way to the front-line staff, we also present the conclusions of the project to all levels of staff. This involvement from start to finish means that there is ownership at every level and at each stage.
We do not believe in prescriptive recommendations and advice, we don’t have standard reports that we pass on to clients at the end of a project. Each one is different to the next and we look at the existing structures in your business, your systems and business plans; we reinforce those that are positive and successful and we review recommend changes to those that are underperforming. We research opinion from your own staff and that of your customers; this allows us to make realistic and responsible recommendations. This approach makes implementation of recommendations, work from the top down and the bottom up; this results in the implementation phase being smooth and without the need for a dictatorial approach.
Beyond The Blue can help your organisation with Consultancy Projects in many areas. We specialise in the Licensed Retail Sector, Security Industry and Event Management and can refocus your business, revamp it, prepare you for starting a new business or expanding an existing one.
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Title – Wrist grip
Date – October 2006
The wrist grip is often one of the first signs that a situation or argument is changing from a verbal stage to a more physical one. It is at this stage that often even the slightest wrong move or wrong word can dramatically escalate matters.
The natural reaction to an aggressive party grabbing your wrist is to wrestle it free, but unfortunately this demonstration of force more often then not leads to further force being used by the agressor. This struggle can lead on to further aggression before you even realise what is happening.
At Beyond The Blue we teach techniques that help you to remove yourself from this grip without struggling and often almost without the person who grabbed you even knowing. The calm nature of this and our other ‘low-impact’ disengagement techniques, means that you don’t trigger the natural responses in an aggressor that can escalate a situation. This approach gives you the space and time to practice the non physical techniques and communication skills we teach you in our Conflict Management and Resolution course (CMR).
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Title – Personal safety training
Date – October 2006
Effective learning is possible through the use of simple rules and at Beyond The Blue we follow these strictly. Our aim when running a training course is effective learning and positive outcomes for those attending.
Our first rule is group sizes; we adhere to strict guidelines that we have set out, to ensure that groups are not too large and that the dilution of learning does not occur as a result. Where clients demand that numbers be at the top end of our limits, we often send in more then one instructor to run the course. This ensures that where required, scenario based learning and group work can still be undertaken with sufficient supervision provided.
This approach also allows us, to have greater control over the practice and perfection of physical intervention and personal safety techniques.
These strict guidelines are applied to all our training courses; the portfolio of BIIAB Licensed Retail Sector courses; National Certificate for Door Supervisors (NCDS); Conflict Management & Resolution (CMR); In-House Security Induction (IHSI); and Fire Safety (FS).
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