2 Day Manual Handling Skills

Course Outline

Day 1

• Legal requirements
• Spinal awareness
• Musculo Skeletal injury
• Looking after yourself
• AAPEE
• Base to Face
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Assessment Re-cap
• Object handling equipment
• Object handling techniques
• Understanding client needs
• Assessing client handling needs
• Methods of holding
• Handling aids and equipment

Day 2

• Revision
• Test
• Condemned client handling techniques
• Use of hoist
• Client handling techniques:
• Transfers - bed, chair, commode, vehicles, etc
• Assisted walking
• Repositioning - chair, bed
• Use of handling aids - slide sheets, boards
• Hoist techniques
• Falls
• Emergency situations