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At Granite Training, ensuring spectator safety, including PI training, is paramount. Our comprehensive approach integrates crowd management techniques with thorough understanding of public interaction dynamics. Through our training, our staff adeptly handle diverse scenarios, safeguarding spectators while fostering a secure environment for all events. We prioritise proactive measures and swift response strategies.
The objective of this spectator safety includes PI qualification is to confirm occupational competence and provide learners, with the knowledge, skills and understanding of spectator safety.
Learners will cover topics such as:
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This qualification also includes the optional unit Application of Physical Interventional Skills in the Private Security Industry.
The Physical Intervention unit is an additional opportunity for learners to upskill. This is to be used by all learners who, because of their job role and location at an event, are required by their employer to undertake physical interventions when de-escalation conflict management techniques have failed to resolve conflict.
The unit is not a mandatory part of this qualification, meaning that the qualification can be fully achieved without the achievement of this PI unit.
The learners undertaking the unit as an additional unit would normally be directly employed in-house staff working at certificated sports grounds, that are currently exempted from licensing under the Private Security Industry Act 2001. All other persons undertaking licensable activity are required to hold a relevant license issued by the Security Industry Authority (SIA).
Highfield Level 2 Certificate in Spectator Safety (RQF) 4 Delivery of this optional unit must fully comply with the prescribed standards and criteria published by the SIA. Where employees are undertaking physical intervention, it is important they are correctly trained. The use of the SIA PI unit ensures the staff have been trained to a system that could be defended in the event of a civil claim or possible prosecution.
Assessment method: Portfolio of Evidence
Guided learning hours (GLH): 73
Total qualification time (TQT): 240
Those learners undertaking the mandatory units only are required to be 16 years of age or above.
Any learners undertaking the optional unit Application of Physical Intervention Skills in the Private Security Industry must be aged 18 and over prior to delivery.
Any learners undertaking the optional unit Application of Physical Intervention Skills in the Private Security Industry are likely, during their work, to be required to make calls to the emergency services and communicate clearly to resolve conflict. It is therefore essential learners can communicate clearly.
Learners should, as a minimum, have language skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening equivalent to the following:
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