Manual Handling – Advanced People Manual Handling Training Skills for Support Workers : Face-to-Face Training

The ability to apply safe manual handling principles and techniques is an essential skill for support workers supporting clients with reduced mobility. Our manual handling for health care workers training is designed specifically for people working as home care workers, personal carers, nurses, aged care or disability support workers and develops the knowledge and skills required to recognise the manual handling tasks performed when supporting client/s, the ways in which these tasks may lead to injuries, and how using safe work practices when assisting their client can minimise the risk of these injuries occurring.
Our manual handling course for health care and support workers assisting clients who are both semi-dependent and dependent and developing the manual handling skills relating to client transfer from bed to chair/wheelchair, sit to stand, rolling in bed, using slide sheets and hoists.

Demonstrate the safe moving of a client sit to stand from a chair
Demonstrate the safe moving of a client from lying to sitting
Demonstrate rolling in bed
Demonstrate a safe effective slide sheet technique for a dependent client
Demonstrate a safe effective hoist technique for a dependent client
Complete a risk management activity

4 hours face-to-face training and assessment

Advanced People Manual Handling for Support Workers: Face-to-Face Training and Assessment

1 year

Our Health Care programs are only ever conducted by either a nurse or a paramedic. There can be no better trainer than one who has "lived" experience. As a trusted health professional, they will teach the 'why' of your course and are committed to your learning. This manual handling skills program provides support workers with essential knowledge and skills to safely assist a semi-dependent and fully dependent client.

Some of the topics for our advanced manual handling training for health care and support workers include:

• Understanding the concepts of manual handling


• Identifying manual handling tasks within the general and supportive care environment


• Minimising manual handling injuries to self and others


• Identifying the principles of safe lifting and moving of loads


• Examining the relevant health and safety legislative requirements


• Explaining the risk management process; including a risk management activity


• Prompting versus assisting


• Exploring the manual handling techniques for clients who are semi-dependent and fully dependent on others


• Understanding the manual handling support required for a client transfer from bed to chair and bed to wheelchair


• Understanding the manual handling support required for a client using walking aids


• Repositioning a client using slide sheets


• Applying a sling using slide sheets


• Hoisting from a bed to a chair