Manual Handling Awareness Course

Our two hour comprehensive Manual Handling Awareness Course is delivered at your place of work. Alternatively, you can attend a course held at one of our venues.

Courses can be customised to suit your needs for example, including the lifting procedure for some of your specific loads.

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Course aims and objectives:

• Educational aims - to appreciate the requirements of the Manual Handing Regulations; understand the potential problems caused by hazardous manual handling operations as far as reasonably practicable; to assess any Manual Handling operation that cannot be avoided; to reduce the risk of injury so far as is as reasonably practicable.
• Objectives - you will understand the basic principle of Manual Handling in the day to day working environment; you will understand how to carry out manual handing operations safely; you will be shown how to assess the load, the risk and accessories that may be required for the lift.
• Target audience – if you or your employees have to lift, lower, carry, push or pull loads, this course is for you.

Course Overview:

• The Health and Safety at Work Act
• Manual Handling Regulations
• Assessing Hazards and Risks
• Load limits
• Accident rates and types of injuries
• Responsibilities of the Employer
• Your Responsibilities
• The basic principles of Manual Handling in day-to-day working environment
• Assessing the load and accessories that may be required for the lift
• Practical session
• Good Lifting Posture and Lifting strategy
• Questions
• Finish

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Patient Handling/Manual Handling Combination Course

The Combination Course covers patient handling and safe lifting and handling of loads.

Why a Combination Course

Anyone who is involved in patient handling in a residential / care-home environment will also be lifting or moving items e.g. Zimmer frame, moving chairs, trolleys, laundry, etc. Staff need to be shown both how to safely manage patient handling and how to safely lift / move loads.

Length of Course

The training course is 4 hours (plus breaks)

By the end of the Workshop all attendees will:

• Have increased knowledge of safe patient handling
• Have increased knowledge of lifting and handling of loads
• Have increased awareness of preventive measures which can reduce the likelihood of potential health problems, and lifting and handling accidents

Areas to be covered within the Workshop:

• Patient handling (including how to limit patient lifting by helping residents to help themselves)
• Lifting and handling terms and what they mean
• Employer / employee responsibilities
• Patient Handling / Manual Handling Risk Assessments
• Health issues / looking after your spine and knees
• Safety issues / preventing accidents
• Lifting in the real world (practical sessions)

Practical sessions will include:

Patient Handling and Lifting Activities in the Residential / Care-Home Environment

• What patient handling and moving aids are available
• When to use a specific handling and moving aid
• How to assist a resident get out of a chair
• How to assist an individual walking with a frame
• How to turn an individual in bed without lifting

Lifting and Handling of loads

• Carrying laundry
• Moving boxes of supplies
• Furniture / equipment moving
• Moving trolleys (tea trolley etc.)
• Moving a hoist / lifting equipment