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"The No-Lift Approach"
BACK CARE - MANUAL HANDLING WORKSHOPS
1 or 2 days - at your location or care facility
AIM OF THE WORKSHOPS:
To provide Health Care Workers with the necessary information, instruction and practical assessment and problem solving skills to assist them:

• With the implementation of a No-Lift approach to the moving and handling of people;

• To improve general Occupational Health and safety in the workplace and assist to prevent or reduce injuries, specifically from the manual handling of people;

• To reduce the incidence of skin tears, bruising and other injuries to clients as a result of manual handling;

• To improve channels of communication and work systems to improve work practices, client care and reduce stress to clients and carers; and

• To reduce workers compensation premiums so that money can be better spent on continual improvement of the facility, working conditions and client care

TRAINING METHODS:
Interactive sessions with group discussion and practical hands on work for personal fitness training and manual handling skills with ongoing assessment of students throughout the course.
CLOTHING:
Participants are requested to wear comfortable, loose clothing, eg culottes, loose slacks or skirts or shorts, loose shirts and joggers or flat shoes. No high heeled shoes, tight skirts or jeans please.
COURSE PRESENTER:
Kate Tuohy-Main, Physiotherapist MAPA, MCSP

COURSE CONTENTS:
• Overview of Occupational Health and Safety Legislation;
• Applying Manual Handling Standard and Code of Practice to the workplace;
• Back care - Mechanical causes of back pain and injury - what to avoid;
• Correct posture and fitness training;
• Methods of dealing with acute back injury, to minimise the time spent away from work learning to use own body as assessment tool for manual handling;
• Identification, assessment and control of manual handling hazards;
• Applying safe principals to lifting objects;
• Client assessment to identify needs of the client and carer in the manual handling process;
• Manual handling techniques to firstly minimise the risk of injury to client and carer and secondly maximise the rehabilitation potential of the client;
• The use of mechanical aids and lifting aids;
• Ergonomic design in relation to furniture, equipment, clothing and building design;
• Systems of work;
• Management and its roles and responsibilities in injury prevention;
• Areas that need to be addressed to prevent injury;
• Resources available;
• Test of knowledge at end of first day of two day course

Kate Tuohy-Main, Physiotherapist MAPA, MCSP
Course Presenter

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