The GSA is recognised as one of the leading models in the management and prevention of violence and aggression.
Our Breakaway & Personal Safety training does not use the application of pain to enable safe disengagements from attacks and grabs.
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Cost per person for open courses
£90 +VAT
Delivered to your workforce for groups up to 16 people
£475 +VAT
Call 01603 986 719 To book a private course
This course will enable staff to understand their safety within the workplace. Through the use of personal safety physical skills and underpinning knowledge of the law and the right to use force, staff will learn how to disengage from an attack safely.
The course is one day that can be offered as a standalone certificated course or as part of a full PMVA course.
This course will give staff both the knowledge about the law and protecting themselves, as well as the physical skills to keep themselves safe in hostile and aggressive situations.
Our techniques are based on a pain-free approach to personal safety, respecting the service users rights.
We believe that whilst staff safety is of the utmost importance when working with children or adults with behavioural disturbances, maintaining a therapeutic relationship should remain at the centre of behaviour management.
We can develop a bespoke training programme based on the type of breakaway techniques which may be necessary for your staff.
Our PMVA tutors are fully qualified GSA trainers. They have over a decade of experience in both the use of the training in secure services and in teaching the subject, using real experiences and underpinning knowledge to embed the learning.
The Use of Force and Law
Core skills include:
Advanced skills include:
This course is 1 Day (09:30 – 16:30)
Learners will engage in a series of group activities and feedback sessions to assess learning.
This course certificated as taught under the GSA standards.
Brilliant instructor, went into the course with no experience in MVA and Breakaway left feeling MORE than confidant!
Good session of Breakaway/conflict resolution training today at Quay Place! Ash was awesome and would happily recommend!
I really enjoyed the training, it was extremely informative and engaging.
Physical Intervention is more commonly known as restraint- the intentional application of restrictive holds designed to limit a person’s freedom of movement to prevent them causing harm to themselves or to other people.
Such skills are commonly used in teams of 2 or more skilled professionals.
Our Physical Intervention skills are backed by a framework of underpinning knowledge around behaviour management.
We take a serious approach to the prevention of abusive practice when managing violent and aggressive behaviour.
Our training is based on a set of skills designed not to cause pain, which puts the individual at the centre of the incident.
Our focus is restraint avoidance and adopting a therapeutic approach to behaviour management.
Our physical intervention programmes are backed with comprehensive theoretical components exploring the theories of aggression and why people become aggressive, and how to approach the topic of de-escalation as part of a preventative strategy.
If you would like to book this course, please contact: 01508 218 017
Or see if we have one courses bookable online here
The GSA is our regulatory body governing our breakaway’s and Physical Intervention Training. The GSA set the standards by which we must deliver our courses in the Management of Violence and Aggression (or PMVA, PMA and MOVA as it is sometimes called).
