Healthcare Defensive Tactics System: Student Manual

The Healthcare Defensive Tactics System™ is a training program designed for public safety officers to reduce the potential of injury and liability risk when lawfully defending themselves or controlling a violent and/or aggressive individual.The Healthcare Defensive Tactics System™ training is intended to give the trainee the basic understanding of self-defense, use of force, controland restraint, reasonable force and basic legal definitions of force.Subjects covered include:* Use of Force and Self-Defense* Defensive Tactics Fundamentals* Contact and Cover Positioning* Escort Strategies and Techniques* Control & Decentralization Techniques* Handcuffing Techniques* Defensive Blocking Techniques* Personal Defense Skills & Techniques* Personal Weapon Retention Techniques* Post Incident Documentation* Healthcare Restraint Holds/ApplicationsThis course provides training and education that is designed to empower officers, increase awareness, knowledge, skills and actions with regard to use of force, control and restraint, self-defense, anddefending others with defensive tactics strategies and techniques.