Ligature Awareness Course Manchester

We have been running public first aid courses across Greater Manchester since 2016. Our own training centre, Caroline House in Audenshaw, has hosted over 790 public courses, and we run regular scheduled courses at St Matthew’s Community Hall in Trafford and The Townhouse Hotel in Manchester city centre — more than 100 public dates are currently in the diary across those venues.

Because our centre is in the Manchester area, onsite training at your own premises is straightforward across the city and the surrounding boroughs: Tameside, Trafford, Salford, Stockport, Oldham and Bolton. We deliver first aid, fire safety and mental health first aid training locally, and being close by means we can usually accommodate short-notice bookings.

Ligature Awareness Training Session: recommended for all people caring for or working with adults and/or children who are at risk of self harming.  Especially useful for staff in the specialist care services, emergency services, probation and prison services who need an awareness of ligature issues rather than an in-depth understanding that perhaps a manager or residential team leader may require. 

This is a short course that provides an introduction into the following:

- legal and regulatory requirements
- suicidal ideation
- behaviour change
- ligature assessment
- ligature cutters: storage, identifying, disposal
- how to safely remove someone from a ligature suspension
- scene preservation

The course duration is between 1 and 1.5 hours depending on learner numbers and existing learner knowledge. 

Please contact us to discuss your requirements, workplace activities, and the potential staff issues if you are interested in this course.

Health and Safety Qualification Number: 266150