moving & handling REFRESHER
Course duration:
Three hours
Price:
£55 per person
An essential annual update for anyone who is required to use safe handling equipment and techniques as part of their role.
There is a continual flow of updates and new equipment we come across all the time and these updates are crucial for you and your client’s safety.
Course benefits:
At the end of the training course, you will have the renewed competence to provide correct people handling techniques so that risks are reduced to yourself and patients/residents.
Course Objectives
- Move and handle people in a way that requires the least amount of effort
- Move and handle people in a way that provides greater comfort and dignity to the patient or resident or resident
- Understand manual handling legislation as it applies to healthcare
- Gain a better understanding of spinal mechanics
- Look after your own back and that of patients/residents/ clients
- Conduct a personal risk assessment for patients / residents / clients
- Safely move people with and without the use of specialist equipment
Course content:
- Manual Handling Responsibilities and the Law
- Anatomy of the Spine and Types of Injuries
- Ergonomics
- Safe Lifting Techniques – L.I.T.E/ TILE
- Lifting Objects
- Key Elements of People Moving
- Risks and Controls related to People Moving
- People Moving – Risk Assessments/ Personal Plan
- People Moving Equipment
- People Moving – Controversial Techniques
- People Moving – Good Techniques
- Practical Sessions and Assessments in People Moving
