Duration: 1 day
Manual
Handling - the Safe Handling and Moving of Loads in the Workplace:
We offer two courses to provide training and knowledge in the area of Manual Handling of Loads and the potentials of Harm that employees may suffer in the workplace against this Hazardous Risk.
For general employees we provide a half day course that gives a sound understanding of the regulations, their interpretation and the guidelines, along with robust appreciation of the hazards and risks on the moving, handling (and the continuum) of loads and awkward manoeuvres. Further to this we provide insight and awareness of each individuals own body mechanics and ensure practical assessment, refinement and peer observation.
Both courses are practical, visual and interactive, with opportunity to practise
taught skills and techniques under the guidance and mentored supervision of
the tutor and to discuss their application to each participant's own work.
A course booklet and handouts are provided, the cover the key elements of the
course.
Courses
Safe Manual Handling - Half day
Safer Handling of People - Full day
Safer Handling of People
We also provide a full day course for HealthCare providers that additionally covers an innovative and developmental afternoon tackling the Safer Handling of Patients (HoP5) and the challenges of moving patients in all circumstances with minimal strain/risk to the carer and highest care for the patient.
This course is aimed very much at the HealthCare provider, and the entire day is focused as a clinical training for the fields of pre-hospital, community and hospital care.
Content
The syllabus of the Safe Manual Handling course is delivered with adaptation to be specific to the Healthcare field and the roles of the Healthcare Professionals and Carers attending the course.
- Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (amended 2004)
- Employer and Employee responsibilities and obligations
- Risk Assessment, Safe Working Loads and RIDDOR
- Handling Techniques - Old, Habitual and New
- Applying Legislation and Guidance
- Understand the causes of common back injuries
- Understand the principles of good movement
- Know how to apply these principles to their own work situations
- Practising and assessing the correct movements - peers and under the supervision of the tutor
- Common back injuries and their causes
- Spine and vertebrae structures
- Types of injuries, skeletal, muscular
- Biomechanics, Spinal Awareness and Posture
- Effect of posture and load position
- Techniques of kinetic handling
- Principles of good movement
- Assessing the load/s
- Lifting & lowering
- Pushing & pulling
- Stabilisation of Loads
- Specifics of Safer Patient Handling
- Tissue viability and Infection Control issues affect on patient handling
- Work related injuries in the Health and Care Services
- Legal and Professional responsibilities
- Spinal Stress and Accumulative destruction - position & postures
- Safe working loads - MAC's
- Risk assessments & ergonomics - TILEE
- Condemned handling and moving techniques
- Practical sessions covering
- Assessing patients/clients
- Walking patients, doorways, stairs and falls to floor
- Chair transfers - chair to stand, chair to chair/frame
- Hoists and handling aids
- Bed movements of patients/clients
- Lateral transfers
- Assisting with dressing / treatments / toilet
With on-going assessment throughout the practical workshops and patient movements, facilitated with review of the candidate's application of the course principles, each candidate is issued with Certification of Safer Patient Handling - certificate valid for one year.
Pricing
£130.00 per student excluding VAT
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