Manual Handling - Non-Accredited

This is a non-accredited short refresher course to renew your Manual Handling Certification. This course provides a comprehensive approach to safe and healthy manual handling practices, in accordance with the Code of Practice: Manual Tasks (2010), Work Health and Safety Legislation, and organizational policies and procedures.

• Online pre-Learning theory component and assessment.
• Face-to-face training and Practical Component
• Develop Skills and knowledge to carry out manual handling tasks safely and effectively.
• Focus on Health Care and Community Services industry.
• Safe posture and movement techniques
• Safe manual handling practices
• Proper use of manual handling equipment
• Warm-up exercises

Upon completion of this course, you will receive a certificate of participation which is a highly regarded certificate in the Health and Community Services industry.

• Rights and Responsibilities
• Causation/Relationship of Injury
• Defining Manual Process
• Protecting yourself
• Practical and modular lifting techniques
• Strategies to avoid lifting.
• Workplace Specific Manual Handling Techniques
•  Preventing common injuries
• Preventing RSI injuries to the elbows, wrists, and hands
• How to use visual and verbal cues to manage the patient’s position.
• General prevention strategies
• Safe Posture and movement
• Safe manual handling practices
• Safe and effective use of manual handling equipment
• Warm up exercises
  
  

• Identify the way in which staff perform their daily duties and the physical effect it will have.
• Developing appropriate movement patterns for bending, leaning and reaching tasks.
• Identify which bending, lifting and reaching movement patterns can contribute to detrimental effects on the body.
• Identify specific techniques for use in tasks associated with the Aged and Community Care Service Industry.
• Understand the rights and responsibilities of injury management.

Tuesdays: Morning and Evening Sessions

• 3 hours of practical
• 3 hours of online theory
• Schedule of training: Twice a week

• Power Points,
• Online Assessment (Knowledge Questions),
• Practical Assessment

Course Fee: $ 99