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Violence Prevention Management Program
In September 2025 the NSW Health Mandatory Training Standing Committee signed off on the redesigned Violence Prevention Management (VPM) Program.
The redesigned program consolidates mandatory VPM training for NSW Health workers through self-paced eLearning modules on My Health Learning (MHL) and facilitator resources for use in face-to-face workshops and practice drills. Innovative, cost-effective, high-quality education and training approaches that enhance safety and security for workers, patients and visitors have been included.
Staff have been targeted for relevant pathways either at a State level (based on employment codes) or locally by executive teams following local risk assessments.
To enrol in a workshop please use the pathways below. You will not be able to enrol in a workshop until you have complete the online pre-requisite modules and the health questionnaire.
Learning Pathway 3: Evasive Techniques
Frontline patient-facing workers whose role involves close interactions with patients in higher risk face-to-face health service settings. This includes state level targeting for all registered nurses.
This Learning Path inlcudes both eLearning modules and a face-to-face workshop that provide practical strategies to respond safely in aggressive situations. You’ll learn evasive techniques designed to help you disengage, escape, or create safe space when needed. These techniques align with workplace policies and best-practice principles.
Learning Pathway 4: Responding in Small Teams
This Learning Path includes both eLearning modules and a face-to-face workshop that provide practical strategies to safely assess, plan and respond to a patient’s behaviour that poses a low risk of violence. Physical techniques to support and manage a patient using one and two-person holds are also covered. These techniques align with workplace policies and best-practice principles.
Learning Pathway 5a: Team Response – Core Techniques
Frontline patient-facing workers working in environments where there are sufficient workers available to undertake a team restraint. This includes code black teams who use team restraint. This may include Emergency Departments (exclusions may include MPS or Polyclinics) and other locally determined audiences based on risk assessment (e.g. Brain Injury Units, ICU).
Learning Pathway 5b: Team Response – Core + Extension Techniques
Frontline patient-facing workers working in environments where ongoing complex behaviour management is required and there are sufficient workers available to undertake a team restraint in high-risk areas including inpatient mental health units. This includes code black teams and security teams who use team restraint in these areas & other locally determined audiences based on risk assessment.