Manual Handling – People Manual Handling Awareness for Support Workers : Live Virtual Classroom Training

The ability to apply safe manual handling principles and techniques is an essential skill for support workers supporting clients with reduced mobility. This course is designed specifically for people working as home care workers, personal carers, nurses, aged care or disability support workers and develops the knowledge 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.
This program is focused on information, support workers require assisting clients who are both semi-dependent and dependent, developing the manual handling knowledge relating to client transfer from bed to chair/wheelchair, sit to stand and walking with aids.
The ability to apply safe manual handing principles and techniques is an essential skill for support workers assisting clients who have reduced mobility. This presentation by a health educator is relevant for support workers in residential care, aged care, day programs and hospitals.

Live Virtual Classroom Training : 2 hours and 45 minutes

Manual Handling - People Manual Handling Awareness for Support Workers : Live Virtual Classroom Training

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 program provides people with essential knowledge and skills to safely manual handle a client.
Some of the topics 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


• Examining the principles of safe lifting and moving of loads


• Over-viewing the relevant health and safety legislative requirements


• Over-viewing risk management process; including a risk management activity


• Prompting versus assisting


• Discussing manual handling techniques for clients who are semi - dependent