Frequently Asked Questions - Personal Safety (PS)

What is Personal Safety (PS)?

PS is a course designed to combine the basic elements of Conflict Management and Resolution training and Physical Intervention training.

The course looks at the skills involved in avoiding, managing and resolving conflict situations as they occur as well as teaching low-impact personal safety techniques that can be employed when conflict management skills fail and aggression or violence ensue. Our break-away and disengagement techniques are specifically designed to be low-impact and do not require the use of force or strength to succeed.

Who should attend this course?

The course is not specifically designed for a particular group and will appeal to anyone wishing to gain skills in personal safety to either enhance their personal wellbeing or to help them to travel more safely.

This is a very compact course designed to give an insight into the subject and not suitable for professionals who deal with regular aggression and violence in the course of their duties. These individuals should consider our Conflict Management and Resolution course and our Physical Interventions course (see www.btbl.co.uk).

What does the course cover?

Health & safety briefing – dynamic risk & threat assessment – communication skills – human responses – avoiding conflict – self awareness - signalling non-aggression - The law in relation to use of force – conflict resolution – defusing high risk conflict – warm-up – balance – stance – movement – blocks – defensive walls – wrist, clothing, neck and strangle break-away techniques

Further information is available from the sample of a PS - Learning Programme.

What is the outcome of the course?

On completion candidates will gain an understanding of basic conflict management and resolution skills and have observed and practiced break-away and disengagement techniques to protect and remove themselves when they face threats in their everyday lives and workplace.

On successfully completing the PS course, candidates will receive an individually numbered certificate of completion from Beyond The Blue. The course will provide them not only with a certificate of attendance, but also with the skills and knowledge to act more safely and confidently in their every day lives and their travel.

How long does the course take and how is the course assessed?

The course runs over one full day. There is no examination and candidates are awarded the certificate for successfully completing the course, providing they take a full part throughout all sessions and satisfy the instructor of their comprehension of the subject and competence in all of the techniques.

Who accredits the course?

The course is accredited by Beyond The Blue.

Why choose Beyond The Blue as your training provider?

Beyond The Blue employ only specialist instructors to run their courses. All our instructors have experience in relevant fields and train with the objective not just of helping you complete the course, but of providing you with the skills and knowledge to succeed in your chosen field.

Courses we run for our corporate clients are tailored to meet the specific needs of that client, allowing us to put the information into more specific context for candidates.

The experience of our instructors brings the subject they are teaching to life. Our training is based on a variety of training methods and comprises of open learning, classroom based learning, scenario based learning, group work and interactive discussion and so meets the preferred learning styles of all candidates.

Our success is measured in the success of those people we train, so we are focussed on providing excellence in customer service both pre and post training.

Additional information

Our Personal Safety course is not a self-defence course. The fundamental difference is that most self-defence courses are based on martial arts or similar complex techniques. These generally take a long time to learn and to achieve competency. The complicated nature of these self-defence techniques means that unless they are regularly practised they can be easily forgotten or performed incorrectly in stressful situations when adrenaline is pumping. These self-defence techniques may also rely on pain compliance techniques or strikes to disable the aggressor. This means that if you get it wrong, the pain inflicted on an aggressor is likely to make them more aggressive.

Our personal safety course examines the causes of aggression and violence so you can work towards preventing conflict in the first place. Our low-impact break-away and disengagement techniques are easy to learn easy to remember and will not aggravate an aggressor further. The only outcome will be for you to free yourself and create distance between you and the aggressor, allowing you to use your conflict management skills to resolve the situation, remove yourself from it or to get help.

We have made a sample PS - Learning Programme available to demonstrate how we put our courses together for each individual client following a training needs analysis. This learning programme was designed for a corporate client and reflects the nature of the personal safety course and the learning outcomes we achieve.

Our personal safety course is very similar in nature to day one of our Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop (GYITSA).

For details of Workshop / Course Dates and Fees please visit the How to Book section of our website, call us on 0845 602 55 95 or Contact Us.

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