Workplace injuries are preventable.
We show you how with our expertise in Manual Handling Training & Patient Moving Training!
Our courses can operate Onsite or Online.
We can help you comply with the Aged Care Quality Standards and/or the NDIS Practice Standards.
“A great way to invest in and value add in the future of your busines and people. Thank you both on an interesting and entertaining real workplace course, well worth it.” – Les Hudson
We’ve helped thousands of clients over the last 35 years and here’s a few you may recognise
A unique approach that revolutionises workplace safety and efficiency. With over 35 years of excellence, our Manual Handling Training and Patient Moving Training go beyond traditional methods. We blend cutting edge technology with an “edutainment” style, ensuring high cultural change and substantial financial returns for your business. Our innovative programs also address both physical and psychosocial workplace hazards, recognising the link between stress and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
Are you facing challenges such as spiralling workers compensation costs, stagnant safety performance, or musculoskeletal disorders dominating your injury statistics? Our tailored solutions are designed to invigorate training sessions, making them eagerly anticipated by employees. Whether you’re looking to improve ROI on training expenditures or implement a comprehensive program across your organisation, Backsafe is your ideal partner.
We deliver manual handling and patient moving training in the workplace using our proven edutainment approach.
We train onsite around Australia, and online in groups of up to 20.
The benefit of our courses is that they can contribute to your Continual Professional Development (CPD).
In 2026, we will be running online public courses in safe manual handling and patient moving aimed at individuals in the healthcare industry.
Most workplaces have policies.
Most workers have had training.
Injuries still happen.
The gap isn’t effort – it’s ownership.
Safety can’t be something we outsource to legislation, regulators, or safety committees alone. Real safety happens when individuals know what safe work looks like, apply it in real time, and confidently coach others to do the same.
That’s why Backsafe’s Train the Trainer Program focuses on building capability where it matters most – inside your organisation.
We equip your people to become confident, credible in-house trainers who can embed safe manual handling practices into everyday work, not just training sessions.
The program delivers:
Because strong safety cultures aren’t delivered once – they’re built, owned, and reinforced every day.
An effective health and safety system is underpinned by a proactive approach to identifying and controlling risks before any injury or illness occurs. In these times of unprecedented workplace stress, this system should address both physical and psychosocial risks through an integrated and adaptive safety management approach.
Our Integrated Training Pathway is based on professional research, practical experience and workplace consultation over 35 years delivering our 3 branded training programs.
Establishing a health and safety system in your workplace is one of the most effective ways to protect your most valuable asset: your workers. Losing workers to injury or illness, even for a short time, can cause significant disruption and cost-to you as well as the workers and their families. It can also damage workplace morale, productivity, staff turnover and reputation.
An effective health and safety system is underpinned by a proactive approach to identifying and controlling risks before any injury or illness occurs. In these times of unprecedented workplace stress, this system should address both physical and psychosocial risks through an integrated and adaptive safety management approach.
Our Integrated Training Pathway is based on professional research, practical experience and workplace consultation over 35 years delivering our 3 branded training programs.
Our manual handling training is tailored to the specific needs of your business and employees. Whether its onsite or live online we use our edutainment approach and our key Backsafe learning concepts to change poor working postures and poor manual handling techniques. Our goal is to help you reduce your workers’ compensation costs, move towards zero injuries and help create healthy working habits in your staff.
Our patient moving training helps reduce the incidence and severity of injuries resulting from manual handling hazards when transferring people. Whether its handling patients, residents and clients in health, aged care, rehabilitation and disability services we train participants to care for their own health by using the most appropriate lifting technique, equipment and moving aids.
Peer to peer coaching shifts training away from a few experts and offers a way to connect peers on a deep, trustful and emotional level. We train select staff to become In-house Manual Handling Champions who can identify and correct poor manual handling habits, help identify, assess and control manual handling risks and participate in peer to peer coaching.
Building the capacity of in-house trainers to train and coach staff in correct manual handling and/or patient moving is a powerful way to build a safe work practices culture in your organisation. It is designed for experienced in-house trainers who have the goal to eliminate the risk of MSDs in your business.
Manual handling risk assessment is a detailed audit of the physical demands of all work tasks undertaken in your workplace. The purpose is to identify any physical or environment hazards that may put workers at risk of sustaining a musculoskeletal injury. Our approach identifies deviations from best practice and assesses improvement opportunities. We work with your management and staff to pragmatically address specific workplace manual handling challenges.
Our online learning academy is geared towards workers in Healthcare, NDIS, Disability Care and Aged Care sectors. Our hybrid learning approach combines online learning with practical assessment with a live trainer. This will develop and improve your skills and knowledge to ensure currency, competency and safety in manual handling and patient moving. Download a course brochure or register to start your course today.
