Online Safer People Handling

Who is this course for?

Everyone in your organisation involved with the movement of people.

If your organisation is a hospital, a hospice, a nursing or care home or is involved in caring for people in the community, in their own homes or social residences, then your staff will be required to know how to handle people safely, with dignity and care so that the risk of injury to themselves and the people they are caring for is reduced.

Today the cost of musculoskeletal injuries in the healthcare sector is still enormous. This course seeks to redress this trend by teaching sound knowledge and understanding of safer people handling in a way that staff will understand how their spines work, how they can be easily damaged by doing the wrong things and how, by adapting sound principles to the many and varied situations that they find in their daily work, they can protect their own health and that of the people they care for.

Benefits:

• Classroom time is considerably reduced.

• An individual's progress is recorded.

• Organisations can evidence an individual's knowledge and understanding at each stage.

• It provides the solid foundation for subsequent practical training sessions.

Course Content

Introduction

What is different about handling people as opposed to boxes and inanimate objects.?
Why do people have to be handled with dignity and care?

The background to the problem in healthcare

The need for improved practice to reduce the number of healthcare injuries; How the legislation helped and was interpreted in relation to people handling.

MHOR and the Human Rights Act

A quick look at how the MHOR and the Human Right’s Act 1998 exist together.

Out with Controversial Handling techniques; in with good practice!

The campaign to get rid of dangerous practices and introduce better awareness and better equipment; What has replaced the old techniques? What equipment has been introduced?

The principles of Manual Handling as applied specifically to the healthcare environment and people handling.

A detailed review of the principles of manual handling studied in the Manual Handling Module but with direct reference to the healthcare environment and people handling in particular.

This section looks at each principle in turn and trains healthcare staff to apply these principles to many of the activities, tasks and common manoeuvres they face in their daily work as well as how to apply these principles to unfamiliar tasks so that they have the knowledge to reduce the risk of injury to both themselves and the people in their care.