Manual Handling in Healthcare

Manual handling training specifically for the healthcare industry

Meeting the best practice standards and ensuring your team is made up of highly skilled carers is the goal for all providers delivering personal and clinical care. It is vitally important in the healthcare industry that all staff understand the key points of body mechanics for themselves and their customers and that they are well trained in the use of standard mobility and independence equipment.

Evidence shows that a lack of training and the variation in staff experience can lead to inconsistency in everyday practices. Unpredictable and difficult activities like patient handling can lead to increased injury and increased injury claims. Workplace processes need to ensure a consistent application of manual handling standards and ensure consistent knowledge and effective application of industry equipment and processes.

The plan that reduces risk in your organisation

The KINNECT Training Manual Handling for Healthcare program addresses the issues felt within the healthcare, home and community care, aged care or disability care sectors. The program will address the risks affecting your organisation, understand your equipment and actions to complete care activities. The program directly addresses the work activities that have important manual handling implications for your organisation.

The program for success includes –

• Assessing your organisational needs and current processes
• Understand your current manual handling risks
• Identify your training requirements
• Contextualise the program to your needs
• Confirm knowledge and application with individual assessment of participants
• Maximum level of practical time within the session
• Provide take-home messages to support healthy employees

The KINNECT Training Guarantee

KINNECT Training will ensure your program meets best practice delivery. We do this by

• ensuring programs are contextualised and individualised
• ensuring leading support materials and equipment are available for the training
• regular validation of our programs utilising our Ergonomists, Occupational Therapists, Physiologists and Physiotherapists with industry experience
• ensuring delivery by Trainers / Assessors with real-world health and community care experience.

What You Will Learn

Being able to effectively understand and participate in safe manual handling practices allows all staff to significantly impact the health, safety and wellbeing of your workplace. This practical hands-on course provides the skills and knowledge to conduct manual and patient handling practices safely, contributing to ongoing risk identification and management. Your staff will learn:

• How to identify manual tasks involving risk to self or others and the factors that make them hazardous
• Understand the level of risk and the procedures for controlling it
• How to prepare the workplace appropriately and organise tasks and workflows
• Prepare people and other loads for movement and handling
• Use correct PPE and people handling equipment correctly
• Understand own personal capabilities and work pacing
• Understand appropriate patient handling techniques
• Understand processes to report risks and contribute to continuous improvement within the workplace.

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