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Ligature Awareness and Prevention

Empower yourself to save lives – learn essential ligature awareness and prevention skills.

Are you working in a healthcare or social care environment where individuals are at risk of self-harm? This 40 minute course will equip you with the confidence to respond effectively to ligature emergencies and create a safer environment for everyone.

Identify the risks: Understand ligature risk assessments and how to identify potential hazards.

Spot the signs: Learn to recognise the signs and symptoms of ligature injuries.

Respond with confidence: Master the safe removal of ligatures and the essential first aid steps.

Prevent future incidents: Discover how to create a safer environment through effective ligature prevention strategies.

Key outcomes:

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to:

Have an understanding of ligature risk assessments and environmental risk assessments
Identify types of ligatures and ligature points
Recognise and describe the signs and symptoms of ligature injuries
Demonstrate the safe removal of ligatures using ligature cutters, from both suspension and incomplete suspension
Better understand company policies, procedures and guidelines relating to ligatures
Know the first aid actions needed following strangulation and attempted strangulation
Understand how to safely store, maintain, dispose of and replace cutters.