Providers must follow the rules in our policy to:

• use medicine for chemical restraint

• support someone who is affected by medicine for chemical restraint.

They must always make sure the chemical restraint is included in the person’s behaviour support plan.

A behaviour support plan is a document that explains what support a person needs.

A Quality Assurance Panel must then:

• check the behaviour support plan
• decide if the chemical restraint should happen.

Providers must always:

• make sure the person is safe when they take the medicine

• protect the person’s rights when they take the medicine

• store the medicine in a safe place.

A chemical restraint doesn’t need to be checked by a Quality Assurance Panel if the person:

• takes the medicine by themselves in a private environment, like their home

• doesn’t get support from a provider while they are affected by the medicine.