If you are already using another behavioral safety course, institutional inertia can stand in the way of deciding to make switch. Here are some reasons why you won’t regret the decision to adopt Safety-Care® Behavioral Training.
Redefining Behavior Intervention
12 Reasons to Switch to Safety-Care®
Evidence-Based Procedures
The procedures embedded in Safety-Care® are based on decades of applied scientific research on effective behavioral interventions with a wide range of populations.
Regularly Updated Curriculum
The Safety-Care® curriculum reflects the latest research, the most current regulatory practices, and extensive practical experience in modern educational, psychiatric, and health care settings. The course material is updated regularly in response to current thinking about behavioral safety interventions. Some other courses have not been significantly changed in many years and reflect an outdated understanding of behavioral safety.
Efficient, Errorless Teaching Methodology
The instructional methods used to teach the course to staff also reflect current research on how people learn effectively. By using procedures such as errorless teaching, distributed trials, and multimodal instruction, trainees learn most efficiently and with the best chance to retain what they’ve learned once the course is over.
Cost-Effective and Sustainable
Safety-Care® helps organizations save by improving staff confidence, reducing workplace stress, and creating safer, more supportive environments that strengthen retention and morale. The base cost is comparable to, or lower than, most other programs, and there are no required add-on materials or per-person fees. Trainers receive digital copies of all course materials, which can be freely duplicated for internal use.
Customizable to Meet Your Needs
No generic course can be the perfect fit for all settings. That’s why Safety-Care® is highly customizable to an organization’s individual needs. Safety-Care provides additional training modules to help give your staff the tools and resources needed to work safely and effectively in your setting and with your specific population. Additionally, we provide avenues for training family members and caregivers who would benefit from carrying over these safety strategies in the home and community.
Strong Preventative Focus
Safety-Care® has a strong preventive focus and is designed to be an active part of a restraint prevention and elimination initiative. It is much better to avoid crisis situations than it is to have to manage them. Trainees learn practical methods for preventing crises so that the individuals you serve can spend less time in crisis and more time engaged in functional learning.
Focuses on Positive Reinforcement
Many similar courses assume that all preventive, de-escalation, and debriefing interventions will be done with highly verbal individuals. There are two problems with that. First, many organizations work with people who have significant expressive and receptive communication impairments for whom such interventions are simply not appropriate. Second, even individuals with no identified communicative limitations often experience a significant breakdown in verbal skills when they are upset, angry, or frustrated. By comparison, Safety-Care® is based on positive reinforcement procedures that are readily adapted to the communication abilities of any individual, in any situation.
Practical Approach to Behavioral Safety
Some other courses teach “de-escalation” interventions that are likely to reinforce crisis behaviors. Others teach impractical procedures such as expressing anger toward an agitated individual. While those approaches may work in the short run or when employed by highly trained and experienced professionals, they are not practical approaches to behavioral safety. Overall, they may result in more crises, not less.
Realistic Methods for Avoiding Weapon Incidents
Many courses ignore the possibility that a client might get hold of a weapon. That makes the course easier to teach, but it isn’t realistic. Any environment contains many potential weapons, and there is always the possibility that a person could grab a harmful object before you can remove it. Without trying to teach dangerous and impractical “disarm” techniques, Safety-Care® provides practical methods for avoiding weapon incidents and for safe management of situations in which a person does have a weapon.
Small, Intimate Class Sizes
Safety-Care® is dedicated to extremely high standards to ensure the highest quality training. We insist on small class sizes so that each trainee receives intensive individual instruction in all parts of the curriculum.
Non-Intrusive Preventative Methods for Staff Safety
Some courses teach physical procedures that employ joint pressure, wide swinging movements by staff, movement of the individual’s limbs out of their normal range of motion, or other methods that present significant risks to the individual. Safety-Care® avoids such problematic interventions.
Unlimited Support & Resources Available
We’ve helped many organizations manage the transition to Safety-Care®. We provide unlimited email and telephone support to assist with planning and implementing a transition. Of course, once Safety-Care® is in place, we continue to provide support, answer questions, and assist with making decisions about the application of Safety-Care® interventions.