TRAINING Safety Options offers a variety of personal safety training programs designed for both public and private law enforcement as well as for civilians (non-police personnel).   Law Enforcement Training Offerings   PPCT Defensive Tactics Program Basic Certification: 32 Hours Instructor Certification: 40 Hours MCOLES Approved   Next Scheduled Class is ... in Thailand This internationally acclaimed program was the first developed based on Tactical, Legal, and Medical research. The PPCT Defensive Tactics program is court defensible and is currently used by thousands of local, state, and federal law enforcement and private security agencies in the US and 14 foreign countries.

Based on human survival responses the program teaches students to safely and effectively control subjects without causing excessive injury. Students who successfully complete this program receive international certification through PPCT Management Systems Inc. , a part of Homeland Security Corporation.

In this program students learn to:

• Choose appropriate and legal levels of physical force and control

• Safely approach and position themselves

• Use low profile Pressure Point Control techniques

• Effectively use impact weapons

• Apply handcuffs in under 1.5 seconds

• Use joint locks and ‘come along’ controls

• Maximize control and minimize injuries

• Retain control of personal firearms

PPCT Spontaneous Knife Defense
Basic Certification: 8 - 16 Hours
Instructor Certification: 24 Hours
MCOLES Approved

The Spontaneous Knife Defense training program (SKD) was developed for law enforcement, corrections, and security officers who must deal with the constant threat of a sudden attack with edged weapons. Based on gross motor skills and the most recent survival learning research, the SKD program teaches simple physical skills to effectively defend against a spontaneous and unexpected edged weapon assault.

In this program students learn to:

• Understand the mental aspects of close quarter combat

• Apply the theories of knife and edged weapon assaults

•  Utilize knife attack concepts and strategies

• Effectively perform defensive & offensive knife techniques

This program is intense and very physical. Technique repetition is required to develop the instinctive skills necessary to survive and win an edged weapon encounter.

Safe And Legal Traffic Stops (SALTS)
Basic Certification: 6 hours
MCOLES. Approved

Developed by the University of Florida’s Institute for Police Technology and Management, the SALTS program is designed to help officers understand and improve their interpersonal communications during traffic stops. Using a professional model, students analyze the stressors and problems associated with his high profile law enforcement function and learn how to reduce conflict and unjustified citizen complaints.

This program blends a traditional communication model with the ‘customer service’ concept popular in business today. This is all presented to the students with critical attention to the issues of officer safety and survival.

In this program students learn to:

• Understand motorist and officer presumptions and preconceptions

• Analyze and evaluate their own personal professional style

• Build interpersonal rapport

• Managing emotional interactions

• Initiating citizen contacts in a safe, positive, and professional manner

This is an excellent training program for departments and organizations seeking to improve the public perception of their personnel and operations.

Civilian Training Offerings

Many civilian, non-law enforcement careers, come with considerable risks to personal safety. Nursing, social work, education, and many other professions deal with people and situations that can boil over into emotional and even physical confrontations. Safety Options offers training programs to help these individuals and groups ways to deal safely and effectively with aggression and physical assaults on their job.

Visitors NOT Victims
Basic Certification 8 Hours
3.8 ANCC Contact Hours

Social workers, educators, home health care workers, sales personnel, and other community workers do some of society’s most dangerous work... home service. OSHA recognizes that by entering into homes and residences to deliver services puts these workers at unique and increased risk to their personal safety. These risks often result in stress, injuries and even death for the home visitor.

Visitors NOT Victims teaches these professionals assessment skills and ways to avoid or reduce the risks of their jobs.

In this program students learn to:

• Recognize environmental warning signs of violence

• Identify and handle verbal hostility

• Understand non-verbal aggression & recognize their warning signs

• Develop safe home visit skills and practices

• Use effective physical strategies for dealing with aggressive individuals

• Report and document violent incidents

This full day presentation is often paired with a management briefing designed to help managers and administrators develop and integrate safety programs into their organization.

SEXUAL HARASSMENT ASSAULT AND RAPE PREVENTION (SHARP)
Basic Training Program: 4-12 hours
Instructor Certification: 24 hours

Statistics indicate that 1 out of every 5 women will become a victim of sexual assault before the age of 21. Our society socializes women to see themselves as victims of aggression unable to protect themselves. The SHARP program deals with this problem by addressing several components of female personal safety:

• Travel safety

• Home safety

• Dealing with professional and social harassment

• Dealing with traditional violent sexual assaults

This training program deals with exploring new attitudes and beliefs, but it also includes class exercises including dynamic, physical, defensive techniques. This combination of mental and physical can help students regain autonomy and take control of their personal safety.

The SHARP program is flexible and may be customized to fit the needs of nearly any group.


PPCT VIOLENT PATIENT MANAGEMENT (VPM)
Basic Certification: 8 Hours
Instructor Certification: 24 Hours

Developed by PPCT Management Systems on their Tactical/Legal/Medical research foundation the VPM program offers answers to health care professionals faced with aggressive or violent patients. While some programs offer ineffective physical skills and techniques, the VPM program teaches students to effectively control violent and assaultive patients; the ones that hurt you.
The goal is to reduce the injuries to health care professionals while minimizing the risk to aggressive patients.

In this program students learn to:

• Identify and classify patient violence and aggression

• Effectively control patients during the application of restraints

• Control assaultive and aggressive patients

• Effectively prevent assaults while minimizing injury potential to the patient

• Accurately chart patient violence and  aggression