Perpetuating the message

Perpetuity Training's Prevention and Management of Violence strand of courses contains a useful module entitled How to Diffuse Workplace Violence (including Breakaway Techniques). Run over a single day in September, it aims to take practising professionals through the various steps that can help them to diffuse potentially violent or aggressive situations. You'll learn about the nature and content of violence, the law relating to violence and reasonable force, verbal and non-verbal communication skills, personal risk assessments and 'breakaway' techniques.

In the same strand, the Preventing and Managing Violence in Hospitals course looks at the same procedures within a hospital environment. This one-day course (again to be run in September) takes full account of Government and National Health Service-devised 'zero tolerance' directives – as well as Best Practice in terms of security and crime prevention techniques – in order to help you piece together a truly effective violence reduction plan.

How can you go about forming an Action Team? How might you measure and record the 'violence problem' in your hospital? Do you know how to conduct a violence risk assessment? All of these questions will be answered, and advice given on ways in which you can measure and evaluate your success once a plan of action has been put in place.

The course is designed to assist National Health Service (NHS) Trust security managers as well as others seeking to reduce violence within a hospital, its departments (A&E being a typical example) and wards.

The Preventing and Managing Violence in Schools one-day course runs in December, taking head teachers and teachers alike through the process of violence prevention and management within their own scholastic surroundings. Delegates will learn about the profile of school violence, including its scale, the forms it adopts and the basic characteristics of offenders.

The design and implementation of a violence reduction strategy is covered in depth, so too effective measures for reducing violent assaults. School security managers seeking effective and appropriate measures to combat the problem are advised to attend.

Managing crime reduction
Do you understand and know how to use the principles involved in constructing a crime reduction initiative? Perpetuity's course How to Manage a Successful Crime Reduction Initiative runs in the Security and Risk Management strand and will educate you in all the right areas. The bespoke module takes account of the very latest crime research and crime management techniques, drawing upon a number of salient case studies to demonstrate the best way in which to create and manage your own initiatives.

Delegates will learn how to research a crime problem, learn from other initiatives and spot those measures which are proven to work. Working with crime reduction agencies is another important part of the course, which runs for one day in June and December.

Similar courses offered under the Security and Risk Management banner are Managing Hospital Security and Managing School Security. As we've already seen, hospitals are one of the most challenging environments in which to provide effective security. The one-day course devised by Perpetuity (which runs in September) aims to consider the diverse risks challenging the safe hospital environment, and to present proven techniques that will increase the security of staff, patients, hospital property and other related assets.

To what extent is exercising control over technology desirable or possible? And how might you determine and document the level of Internet and network control that’s appropriate for your company?

Delegates are taught about typical types of offence, the various Government and NHS security initiatives and targets already in place and how they can go about gathering information on crime and threats. How to conduct a risk assessment and details of what security measures are available (as well as when and how to use them) are covered.

Importantly, the use of situational crime prevention techniques and the deployment of manned security in combination with CCTV systems take centre stage.

School security is also something of a complex and demanding challenge for security professionals, with members of the teaching staff facing increased risks from threats such as violence, theft and arson.

The Managing School Security course is configured to benefit teachers, educators, school managers and security professionals, offering an overview of school security issues, advice on how to record and measure incidents in schools, the implementation of security strategies and the monitoring and evaluation of security measures subsequently put in place.

Talking networks and the Internet
The use – and potential abuse – of both Internet and network technologies is a major concern for the majority of blue chip organisations. The aim of our Effective Management of Internet and Network Technologies one-day course is to examine how both might be used to best effect while maintaining security and preventing internal and external abuses.

To what extent is exercising control over technology desirable or possible? And how might you determine and document the level of Internet and network control that's appropriate for your company? These conundrums will be answered for you, and there'll also be a full appraisal of the methods available for controlling Internet and network access (and those options for dealing with members of staff who do abuse workplace technology).

This particular course, which is offered in October, is specifically designed to benefit security, IT and general managers.

Last but by no means least, have you ever considered Crime Prevention through Environmental Design? If not, you might be interested to learn about this one-day course that Perpetuity is running in both August and December. It looks at how crime and security interrelate with the environment, and what crime prevention through environmental design actually involves. The key principles and techniques of crime prevention by way of environmental design are observed, in addition to the assessment of risk.