Moving & Handling

Target audience

Health care professionals and care workers based in nursing, residential homes and domiciliary care settings without previous manual handling training or care staff who have not done an update for 2 years or more.

Programme outline

• Legislation
  
• Anatomy & Physiology of the spine
  
• Importance of back care
  
• Risk assessment
  
• Ergonomics
  
• Principles of moving & handling
  
• Preparation for moving & handling
  
• Patient Moving
  
• Moving & Handling Aids
  
• Practical Session

Name of tutor: Various

Maximum 12 delegates

Aims and objectives

• Raise awareness of safe manual handling principles and procedures and to develop safe practice.
  
• Raise awareness of legislation and guidelines relating to patient handling
  
• Back Care
  
• Identify and carryout safe risk assessments
  
• Demonstrate safe practice
  
• Observe participants demonstrating safe moving and handling
  
• Consequences of poor manual handling
  
• Banned techniques