Description
In the UK healthcare sector, over 40,000 workers suffer manual handling injuries annually, costing the NHS millions in lost workdays. Furthermore, 1 in 4 healthcare professionals report experiencing a manual handling injury each year.
Our comprehensive City & Guilds Assured Manual Handling Train the Trainer course tackles this crisis head-on, providing your staff with the skills to protect themselves and their colleagues in high-risk healthcare environments.
Who is This Training Course For?
For organisations and trainers who wish to deliver their own manual handling training course to their own staff.
What you will learn
- How to start a manual handling training course
- Benefits of manual handling
- Manual handling law and ACOPS Guidance
- Effects of poor lifting techniques
- Anatomy of the spine & types of injuries
- Principles of leverage
- Types of mechanical aids
- Good lifting and manual handling techniques
- How to deliver a practical session and complete a Manual Handling Risk Assessments considering AAR and TILE
- Manual Handling Risk Assessments
- Record keeping and review
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