Manual Handling & Patient Moving Online Course
Backsafes manual handling & patient moving course is suitable for individual NDIS, Disability Care, Aged Care & Allied Health workers assisting clients.
Our blended learning approach develops and improves your skills and knowledge to ensure currency, competency and safety in manual handling and patient moving.
Price: $195 (Incl. GST) per learner.
Next Online Training: 22nd March 2024.
About Backsafe's Manual Handling & Patient Moving Online Course
Individuals
Individuals that purchase our course tend to be:
- Disability Support Workers supporting NDIS participants.
- Community Aged Care Support Workers supporting older adults.
- Nurses in clinical work environments.
- Informal carers such as family and friends.
Organisations
- NDIS providers
- Community Aged Care providers
- Residential Aged Care providers
- Hospitals
NDIS, Aged Care, Allied Health
Suitable for nurses, carers and support workers
Currency, Competency and Safety
Develop and improve your skills and knowledge
Certificate on Completion
Earn a Certificate upon completion
Earn CPD Hours
2.5 hours of Continuous Professional Development
Qualified Trainers
Delivered by senior trainers with extensive training experiences
The Backsafe Difference
Our goal is to help carers prioritise their own safety at work so they can provide the best care to their clients and keep safe from musculoskeletal injuries.
We know that to achieve lasting change, along with teaching specific client moving transfers, we also need to instil a deep understanding of how the body works and how an injury occurs so that carers can take this knowledge and apply it to any workplace task.
This course will cover:
Part 1: eLearning (self-paced online module) - duration: 30 minutes
- Manual Handling Facts, Stats and Definitions
- Manual Handling & Patient Moving – Risk Management & the Hierarchy of Controls
Part 2: Live Training session via Zoom - duration: 90 minutes
Your body at work
- How the body works and how the creation of a MSD is a cumulative trauma injury
- How leverage forces can negatively impact the body when lifting incorrectly and how correct lifting can allow the body to work safely without damage
- Demonstration of pre-work and after breaks warm-ups and stretches
- Understanding and application of lifting, carrying and generally moving plant, equipment and frequently used items.
- Understanding and application of a range of client/patient transfers including:
- ON BED
- Move up / down bed
- Sit up
- Roll over
- Turn / reposition in bed
- Sit on side of bed
- OFF BED
- Move from bed to chair using slide board
- Move from bed to chair using electronic standing hoist
- Move from chair to bed using electronic sling hoist
- Move from chair to toilet using Sara Steady
- Move fallen person off floor
- WALKING
- Move from sit to stand
- Move in/out of car
Part 3: eLearning (self-paced post learning & online quiz) - duration: 30 minutes
- Once you complete all 3 parts you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of completion and 2.0 hours towards your Continued Professional Development.
Trusted By
We’ve helped thousands of clients over the last 30 years and here’s a few you may recognise
Course Outcomes
- Decreased risk of sustaining injuries when moving clients.
- Decreased risk of sustaining injuries when moving plant, stores and equipment.
- Increased safety for those that you are caring for.
- Increased confidence with providing patient handling care.
- Identification and control of specific transfer techniques in client moving.
- Identification and control of manual handling techniques in the aged care and disability sector.
Resources
All participants will receive the following Backsafe Training Materials.
- 1 x Backsafe Patient Moving Workbook
- 1 x Backsafe General Manual Handling Workbook
- 1 x Backsafe laminated warm up and stretch tri-fold card
All participants will receive the following Backsafe Training Materials via online e-learning platform.
- Access to 12 x Backsafe patient moving videos
- Access to recording of live session
- Presentation: Manual Handling – Facts & Stats & Definitions
- Presentation: Manual Handling – Risk Management
- Discomfort Survey – To assess your own body’s health
- Manual Handling Observation Checklist – To assess manual handling risk
- Patient Risk Assessment Checklist – To assess hazardous people handling tasks
- WHITEPAPER Integrated Approach to Reducing MSDs in the Healthcare Industry
Your Trainer
Peter Broadbent has been working in the safety training sector for over 30 years working with some of the largest organisation in Australia and overseas. During this time Peter developed Backsafe which is a proactive injury prevention training program which has now been delivered to tens of thousands of employees in a range of different industries with a range of different job tasks.
Peter has trained carers from the healthcare, aged care and disability sectors so that they become aware of their body position and health implications whether they are caring for adult patients in the home, hospital or healthcare facilities and child and adult clients in residential care and disability facilities.
Peter’s goal is to reduce the incidence and severity of musculoskeletal injuries resulting from manual handling hazards when lifting and moving materials, equipment and transferring people.
Contact information
For any course or technical enquiries, please contact Jane Stewart: jane@backsafe.com.au or 0411 838 033.
Cancellations
By registering and purchasing your course, you agree to receiving training updates.
Notification of cancellation or transfer of registration must be by email to jane@backsafe.com.au
No refund is available for any cancellations received 5 working days or less prior to the start date, however a substitute delegate is welcome. Please notify us of any substitution as soon as possible.
No refund or transfer will be given for non-attendance.