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Physical Intervention Training (PI Training)

Learn safe and controlled techniques to manage physical conflict.

Course Overview

This programme provides learners with skills and knowledge to restrict and control the movement and freedom of an individual in order to protect themselves, the individual and others from injury or assault. The primary goal is to reduce the need for physical intervention – not just to ensure such interventions are safer.

What type of skills can this training include?

Holding and escorting skills build on the content of our Assault Avoidance and Disengagement programme, providing staff with restrictive guiding and holding techniques.
• Depending on the circumstances, holds can be applied to a person who is standing, seated or lying down. 
• Depending on the common service user behaviours staff face, we may also teach learners how other staff can be used in support roles and how to respond when a service user begins to go to the ground.
• Specialist skills are taught to those in high risk or unique roles. These can include searching, incident response, physical intervention in crowd situations and in a few environments where there are very violent individuals, the use of equipment can reduce the risks when physical intervention is needed and cannot be avoided.

Choose SASS for a safer approach to physical intervention

SASS is committed to helping clients reduce the use of force, as physical intervention carries risks for everyone involved and can result in tragedy.

Our training emphasizes prevention and de-escalation—teaching staff how to avoid situations from arising or escalating. At the same time, we recognize that in some environments, staff may need to act to prevent imminent harm to themselves or others.

Where such scenarios are foreseeable, SASS provides greater peace of mind by:

  • Assessing Needs: Helping you establish the right level of training, supported by clear policy and guidance.

  • Reducing Force Reliance: Building staff confidence in safe, effective alternatives.

  • Minimizing Risks: Protecting both service users and staff when intervention is legitimate and unavoidable.

  • Professional Responses: Equipping staff with non-aggressive, professional, safer, and highly effective physical techniques.

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Physical Intervention Training

At SASS, our primary goal is to help organisations reduce the use of force. Physical intervention carries risks for everyone involved and can lead to serious consequences. That’s why our training focuses on prevention and de-escalation first—while also preparing staff to act effectively and safely when intervention is unavoidable.

Our Training Covers:

  • Understanding legal frameworks

  • Recognising the causes and escalation of aggression

  • Actions to avoid being restrained or attacked

  • Safely disengaging from holds

  • Supporting others to disengage safely

  • Avoiding and defending against kicks and punches

  • Post-incident reporting, record-keeping, and de-briefing

Every course is 100% bespoke, tailored to your organisation’s needs and requirements.

Why Choose SASS Training?

Our approach provides peace of mind by:

  • Establishing the right level of training, supported with clear policy and guidance

  • Building staff confidence in safe alternatives to reduce reliance on force

  • Reducing risks to both service users and staff where intervention is legitimate and necessary

  • Delivering professional, non-aggressive, safer, and highly effective physical responses

Benefits for Your Organisation

Investing in SASS training equips your team with the right skills and confidence, which can lead to:

  • Decreased customer complaints

  • Improved morale and motivation

  • Lower staff turnover, absenteeism, and lateness

  • Reduced risk of litigation

  • Lower insurance costs

The result? A safer environment for staff and service users, alongside stronger protection for your organisation.

The decision to use physical intervention skills should not be taken lightly and should always be regarded as a ‘last resort’ when other options have failed or are likely to fail and where it is not possible or appropriate to withdraw from the situation. Physical intervention training must be carefully designed and delivered around the specific risks staff face, the roles they perform, the service users they work with and the environment in which they work.

The SASS physical intervention model has a unique combination of features that provide you with:
• A flexible framework that responds to your agenda… not our convenience.
• A low arousal approach that does not antagonise those involved or bystanders.
• Highly effective skills that do not rely on pain to gain compliance.
• Accredited, nationally recognised training that meets your sector’s regulatory requirements.
• Individual and team methods that look professional and are proven operationally.
• A problem-solving approach that helps staff respond to local and individual needs.
• Comfort in knowing that the skills have been medically reviewed and risk assessed.
• Substantially fewer training injuries than traditional training models.
• On-going support from some of the most experienced expert witnesses on use of force.

SASS can deliver training on site for your staff or train and equip your trainers to deliver our training programmes themselves. We will help you minimise the need for physical intervention in your workplace and establish the level of training required by staff in different roles.

Please get in touch so we can discuss the best approach for your organisation.

Rates:

Cost per individual €300
Group/course rate (10 participants): Group rates available upon request.

Max participants: 10

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