Manual Handling
Training
Backsafe offers manual handling training programs tailored to the specific needs of your healthcare business and staff
We run programs onsite in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong & Adelaide, or online Australia wide.
Our training covers a range of manual handling techniques and safety tips, including workplace reviews, getting to know your body, damage control, warm ups & stretching and safe lifting techniques.
Onsite or Online Training
Staff Training
Peer to Peer Champion Training
In-house Train the Trainer
Manual Handling Resources
Manual Handling Training for Safer Workplaces
Backsafe offers customised manual handling training programs tailored to the specific needs of your business and staff.
Our training sessions, ideal for groups of up to 20 participants, last approximately 120 -150 minutes.
These courses are delivered using our ‘edutainment’ approach and underpinned by our key Backsafe learning concepts guaranteeing a high level of engagement and effectiveness.
These programs are key to reducing musculoskeletal injuries and fostering safer workplace environments through improved manual handling techniques.
Workplace Manual Handling Review
A brief walk-through review of the workplace to assess the variety and intensity of manual handling tasks and the patient transfer and/or materials handling equipment used on site so as to tailor the training for each client.
Manual Handling Legislative Obligations
An introduction to what manual handling is - covering all of the aspects of legal definitions and compliance obligations.
How an injury occurs
How the body works and how an injury occurs with one bad lift, one bad bend or one bad patient transfer at a time. How the spinal column should not be used as a lever when lifting. How the various joints of the body should be used correctly so as to avoid an accumulative trauma injury.
How to take responsibility for your whole-body health
How nerve damage occurs and its impact on the body and its functions. How pain is not always an indicator of existing damage. If damage exists how not to make it worse. The Tank of Health and how to maximise whole body health.
Warmups & Stretching
Pre-work and after breaks warm-ups and stretches explained and performed by all.
Lifting Techniques
Lifting techniques selected for frequently used items on the job. Practical drilling of lifting and other manual handling utilising all possible techniques.
Patient Transfers
12 common patient transfers covering on bed, off bed and walking. Practical drilling of these transfers using various equipment such as slings, hoists, wheelchairs and any other equipment on hand and used by the client.
Manual Handling Train the Trainer
Backsafe Train the Trainer is an advanced training program conducted over two consecutive days. It qualifies and licences the participant to deliver the Backsafe Manual Handling Training Program within your organisation. It is designed for experienced in-house trainers who have the goal to eliminate the risk of work habits causing MSDs in your business. We recommend that the attendees have a Certificate 4 in Workplace Training and Assessment TAE or above.
If the trainer does not have a “formal training qualification” we can conduct an intensive make-up training designed to help these staff understand and improve their capacity to train others. It works a treat!
A Backsafe 1 Manual Handling Training session in full with lots of variations.
Anatomy of a musculo-skeletal injury
Our dramatic delivery of this section of the program not only personally engages the participants but equips them to equally inform and engage their own trainees when they deliver this section of the program.
Warm-up and Stretching
This section demonstrates correct warm-up and stretching techniques and drills participants in how to safely and effectively instruct their future trainees in these activities. This is a key element of the Backsafe manual handling program and contributes to the overall reduction of soft tissue injuries.
Lifting Techniques
This section demonstrates a number of generic and tailored work specific lifting techniques and drills participants in how to safely and effectively instruct their own trainees in their proper use.
Risk Assessment
Being able to identify manual handling hazards is crucial in ensuring tasks are carried out safely. We go through the identification, assessment and control of manual handling risks using our tailored manual handling hierarchy of controls and associated risk identification tools.
Ready-made powerpoint presentations to use as induction training tools
This section covers seven different 10-15 minute presentations relating to the key Backsafe messages around injury prevention. Each participant is drilled in their content and shown how they can be modified to job specific tasks and/or workplaces. Participants are randomly asked to give an impromptu presentation on one or more of these Backsafe topics. We also share a manual handling induction training tool to assist with new hire protection.
Resources
All participants receive a training kit that includes 20 x Backsafe manual handling workbooks, 20 x Backsafe Patient Handling workbooks, 20 x Backsafe Stretch cards and 18 x Backsafe Posters.
Onsite or Online Training
Onsite training gives our trainers the opportunity to carry out a brief walk-through review of the workplace to assess the variety and intensity of manual handling and mechanical materials handling used on site so as to tailor the training for each client.
Online training gives you the opportunity to involve staff spread around different locations or to join a public session.
Manual Handling in the Healthcare Industry
Manual handling is an important part of patient care in the healthcare environment. It involves any activity that requires the use of force exerted by a person to lift, lower, push, pull, carry or otherwise move, hold or restrain any object or person.
Backsafe’s training helps Healthcare, NDIS, Disability Care & Aged Care workers reduce the incidence and the severity of musculoskeletal injuries resulting from manual handling hazards when lifting and moving materials, equipment and transferring people.
We know that to achieve lasting change that along with teaching specific lifting techniques and specific body movements, that we also need to instil a deep understanding of how the body works and how an injury occurs so that participants can take this knowledge and apply it to any workplace setting and any work task.
Backsafe's Integrated Approach to Reducing MSDs in the Workplace
Backsafe have developed our proprietary white paper on an integrated approach to reducing musculoskeletal disorders in the healthcare industry.
To find out more click the following link to download our FREE white paper: Download Backsafe white paper
Manual Handling Testimonials
Contact Us
Please contact us for further information on our training, consulting and/or digital services or to receive a proposal specific to your organisational needs.
We travel anywhere in Australia and/or the Pacific region and will fit in with any workplace schedule (day or night) to deliver our training programs.
The Backsafe Team is a highly skilled and committed group of safety professionals and we look forward to helping you achieve your safety goals.
Send us your query & we’ll get back to you within 24 hours. Please note we do not train individual students.
- PO BOX 209, Fairfield VIC 3078 AUSTRALIA
- 1300 022 257
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