COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To ensure participants are updated on any changes to best practice.
• To enable participants to share experiences since previously trained.
• To identify any organisational or personal issues that have promoted or hindered the strategy.
• To enable participants to reinforce any skills little used.

This manual handling course has been designed with the core aim of creating a confident, motivated, professionally qualified manual handling instructor.

Course Introduction

This manual handling course has been designed to ensure each member of your training team is delivering up to date manual handling training and risk assessment so that, risks are reduced, to both employees and casualties, mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on improving manual handling by combining the use of criterion based risk assessment with current best practice handling techniques and of new handling aids designed in partnership with brigades to reduce risk.

This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes, practices and motivation which is fast becoming essential to improving trainer performance in the work place.

Participants discover new ways to inspire their trainees to move and handle inanimate loads and casualties in both the current and future roles of fire-fighters in a manner that requires far less physical effort, and improves confidence in both emergency and non emergency environments.

Optional additional modules are available to this course – please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

• Welcome and establishments of objectives for the day.
• Review of problems or issues raised since trained.
• Review of risk assessment practice.
• Basic skills check.
• Practical reinforcement of any faded skills.
• Update on any changes in best practice.
• Evaluation and close.

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will:

• Demonstrate that basic handling skills and knowledge have been maintained
• Demonstrate new handling techniques since previously trained
• Use knowledge and skills to problem solve in respect of unusual handling situations

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives.

Certification / Accreditation:

Solutions Certificate

Special requirements of course participants:

They should be free of injury or any medical condition that may place them at risk of injury.

Course Trainers:

Solutions trainers come from ambulance and nursing backgrounds. All current staff contributed to the design of the Manual Handling Instructor Resource pack. They have extensive experience in training “patient handling trainers” in the NHS ambulance services and understand the issues around 999 services. All are recognised by the Middlesex University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.