Training Courses
FIRE SAFETY COURSES
FIRST AID COURSES
MOVING AND HANDLING COURSES
Patient Handling Awareness
Designed for: Personnel who require an awareness of their duties in relation to manual and patient handling.
Objectives:
- Basic knowledge of legislation
- Recognition of poor posture
- Recognise hazardous and safe techniques
- Effective risk assessment
- To provide staff with an awareness of manual and patient handling activities relative to their workplace
- To introduce staff to manual and patient handling techniques to safe guard themselves against back injury
Course Content:
- Functions of the body
- Causes of injury
- Factors to consider
- Assessing the risks
- Control measures
- Principles of carrying out manual handling tasks
- Case studies
- Group discussions and exercises
- Course questionnaire, evaluation and close
This course will include group discussions and exercises, finally concluding with a short multi-choice questionnaire. On completion of the course a certificate will be awarded to each successful staff member. The participating Company are presented with a Corporate Certificate.