Providers must follow rules in our policy to use environmental restraint.

Providers must only use environmental restraint if someone shows behaviours of concern.

Behaviours of concern are things someone does that might put:

• themselves in danger
• other people in danger.

Providers must make sure environmental restraint has been 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:

• check the behaviour support plan
• decide if the environmental restraint can happen.