Patient Moving Training
The Backsafe Manual Handling & Patient Moving Training is geared toward workers in Healthcare, NDIS, Disability Care & Aged Care.
Patient Handling Training is essential for any business or individual that deals with patient moving in a healthcare facility.
Backsafe offers onsite and online training in groups of up to 20.
In 2024, we will be running online public courses in safe manual handling and patient moving aimed at individuals aiming to develop their skills and safety on patient handling.
Our training can contribute to your Continual Professional Development (CPD) certification.
Staff Training
Peer to Peer Champion Training
In-house Train the Trainer
Onsite or Online Training
Patient Manual Handling Training
The Backsafe Patient Moving & Manual Handling Training is geared toward workers in the Healthcare, NDIS, Disability Care and Aged Care industries. Our training sessions are ideal in groups of up to 16-20 people at a time, and last approximately 120-150 minutes. They are delivered with our ‘edutainment’ approach and underpinned by our key Backsafe learning concepts guaranteeing a high level of engagement.
Our patient handling training system acknowledges the use of patient moving equipment as the primary method of patient handling. However, occasionally when mechanical assistance aids are not available or when time is of the essence, it is vital that assisted patient moving carried out by one or more carers is completed safely for both the patient and the carer.
This training can contribute to your Continual Professional Development (CPD) certification.
What we cover
Workplace Review
A brief walk-through (or virtual) review of the workplace to assess the variety of manual handling and patient moving tasks used and the different mechanical aids available throughout the workplace.
Introduction
An introduction to what patient handling is -covering all of the aspects of the legal definitions.
Get to know your body
How the body works and how the spinal column should not be used as a lever when lifting. How the various joints of the body should be used correctly. Explanation of how a musculoskeletal disorder occurs unknowingly as a cumulative trauma injury.
Damage Control
How nerve damage occurs and its impact on the body and its functions. How pain is not always an indicator of existing damage and If damage exists how not to make it worse.
Warmups & Stretching
Pre-work and after breaks warm-ups and stretches explained and performed by all.
Patient moving techniques
Demonstration of patient moving techniques including sitting / rolling / turning the patient, moving patient from bed to chair, chair to bed, chair to chair, chair to toilet, off the floor and into/out of vehicle and many more daily moves and transfers. We also cover the use of a range of patient moving equipment. All participants are given access to 21 Patient Moving videos.
Peer to Peer Champions Training
Backsafe Manual Handling & Patient Moving Champions is a 4 hour training program and gives participants an overview of the key Backsafe messages and associated patient moving applications. It is not an attempt to have these staff members become trainers – they are more identification specialists with skills to go directly to compliance or controls when they see poor manual handling and patient moving skills performed by your workforce.
Graduating Manual Handling & Patient Moving Champions work with management to build a safe working culture around the physical manual handling and patient moving on site. We raise communication skills of graduates to work with their colleagues to engage them in safe work practices.
What we cover
Explanation of how a musculoskeletal injury occurs
Warm-up and stretching program
Patient moving techniques based on the 12 Safe Transfer Methods as per Worksafe / Cover
General manual handling lifting as per the 7 Backsafe Don’ts
Backsafe Safety Zone and the 12 Basic Body Movements
How to be an effective Manual Handling Champion
How to create a safe workplaces and safe work practices
Peer to peer coaching through role plays and drills
Manual Handling in Aged Care and Disability Support
Manual handling is an important part of patient care in the healthcare environment. It involves lifting and moving patients, heaving equipment and various heavy objects all while keeping patient safety as a priority.
Backsafe’s training helps Healthcare, NDIS, Disability Care & Aged Care workers equip themselves with the correct manual handling techniques and knowledge needed to perform the necessary lifts safely and effectively.
Patient 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 & Patient Moving 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.
Patient Moving Techniques based on the 12 Safe Transfer Methods as per WorkSafe Victoria
Includes access to our new series of Patient Moving videos
Safe 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.
Workplace & Patient 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.
Toolbox Talks and tailored induction training tools
This section covers six different 10-15 minute presentations relating to 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 Toolbox Talks. 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 56 page Backsafe workbooks, 20 x 44 page Backsafe Patient Moving workbooks, 20 x Backsafe Stretch cards and 18 x Backsafe Posters. Participants also given access to 21 x Patient Moving Videos.
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 patient moving 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.
We have recently partnered with the Aged Care Industry Association of Australia and can offer online training to individuals in a group setting. Contact us to find out when the next course is or go to their website and search their course list.
Nationally Accredited Training
The nationally accredited course HLTWHS005 Conduct Manual Tasks Safely is part of the Healthcare Training Package and provides participants with the skills and knowledge required to recognise potentially hazardous manual tasks, and then to prepare for and complete those tasks in a safe manner.
We deliver this course in partnership with our RTO Partner.
Contact us today if you would like further information
Patient Moving Resources
We have developed a range of Backsafe resources to help keep the Backsafe messages ever present within an organisation. This includes workbooks, stretch cards, posters, videos, presentations, banners as well as tailored tools to suit specific client needs.
