Risk Assessment
All training is carried out in line with suitably constructed risk assessments and current health and safety legislation and regulations. This provision also allows us the ability to provide active feedback into the management system highlighting any areas that may require immediate attention or review and / or corrective action to minimise the risk of accidents and injuries occurring. In addition the risk assessment approach towards training uses hierarchical approaches to risk control as identified by various health and safety modules.
For example, when developing restraint programmes we will utilise the hierarchical response to manual handling as laid down by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992. 
By doing this we have been able to identify other practical options to using physical restraint such as containing a violent subject by the temporary locking of doors. In one NHS Trust this control option is supported by a documented risk assessment which has led to the issuing of a specific policy from the board which staff are trained to. As staff have an input from the start in this process they use the control option possibly more responsibly than if it had been imposed upon them. This approach has also been adopted in other areas such as searching.
Our restraint-training programme is compliant with the guidance contained in the Manual Handling Regulations aimed at reducing the risk of direct or cumulative injury in staff who are expected to use physical restraint.
Luck runs out but safety is good for life.