“Just for a moment picture this situation, you are at work in your care home on a night shift. You hear unusual sounds coming from behind the door of one your service-users rooms. You decide to go and investigate, knocking on the door. No answer so you decide to go in and investigate. You open the door and it doesn’t fully open. Squeezing your head around the door you see your service-user partially suspended by a ligature attached to coat-hanger on the door. You shout for help and for someone to call 999. A co-worker arrives and you both just about manage to undo the ligature and release the service-user. On this occasion the service-user is safe. But what if it happens again?”

I had an urgent call from a customer that needed short notice ligature training for their staff who were scared that this situation might happen again and if it did they would know what to do. I arranged a date to go in and do a ligature training course for their staff. It was clear on arrival that the staff were very concerned that they would not be able to cope if they encountered a similar situation.

The ligature training went extremely well and all the staff at the end of the training that they now felt confident in handling a ligature emergency in the future.

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