Specialists in the Prevention and Management of Aggression and Violence
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All of our courses are compliant with the relevant legal requirements of the sectors and environments in which they are delivered, for example:
Common and Criminal Law,
the Human Rights Act,
Health & Safety at Work statute and the appropriate Management Regulations,
The Corporate Manslaughter & Corporate Homicide Act, the New Health and Safety Offences Act 2008,
NICE Guidelines,
The Mental Health Capacity Act,
the Mental Health Act Code of Practice,
The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards,
National Minimum Standards for Care Homes Guidance, The Children Act 1989 and associated Government guidance documents,
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child,
The Education Act 1997,
The Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006,
The Education and Inspections Act 2006
Legal Compliance
Obligations and Responsibilities
Managers have a duty to control the risks of violence at work...
Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA) to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees [HSWA 1974 s2(1)]
“Where violent incidents are forseeable employers have a duty under section 2 to identify the nature and extent of the risk and to devise measures which provide a safe workplace and a system of work”
Lord Skelmersdale
DHSS Advisory Committee on Violence to Staff
For further detailed information about employers' responsibilities in managing aggression and violence at work, please download the following PDF document.
Our legal content has been audited and reviewed by some of the leading human rights lawyers in Europe for consistency and compliance with ECHR rulings, including input from the head of the law faculty for the Open University.
Our principal and director of training, Gerard O'Dea, is a Certified Expert Witness.
