Moving & Handling People

This online Moving and Handling training explains the process of moving someone safely and gives step-by-step guidance, showing the most common lifts and moves. This training is ideal for those working in the care sector, where moving and handling people are regular occurrences.

Learning outcome:

• Demonstrate an awareness of the risks associated with moving people, and where a risk assessment is needed
• Understand how crucial planning is when lifting someone
• Learn how moving and handling people can affect you and your posture if done incorrectly

Content:

1. You and Your Back: In this section, we look at how your back works and how easy it is to damage it. We look at good posture and balance and explain how slipped discs and back pain are caused. Knowing how intricate and perfectly designed your back is and exactly how the damage from poor posture and poor lifting technique builds up over time, will help you to understand how simple adjustments NOW will help avoid problems in years to come.
2. Preparing to Lift Someone: Before lifting or moving someone you need to plan ahead. Think about the person, think about yourself, think about what’s going on around you. In this section we’re looking at what there is to help you, from individual care plans, risk assessments, and specialist equipment through to planning ahead and clear communication.
3. Moving and Lifting Someone: This section uses step-by-step guidance to explain how to perform twenty of the most common lifts and moves, such as helping someone to stand from sitting, helping someone who has fallen, rolling someone in bed and helping someone move from a bed to a wheelchair. The section includes moves and lifts using slidesheets, transfer boards and turntables, slings and hoists and covers the pre-use checks that should be done when using slings and hoists.

Available Language: 29 languages

Importance of training: 

Lifting people at work falls under three key sets of Health and Safety regulations:

• The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1992
• The Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

What are The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992? 

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 define manual handling as, “any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force”; with “load” including any person and any animal.

Certificate (download and print):

This Moving and Handling People Training course concludes with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate. In addition, brief in-course questionnaires guide the user through the sections of the training and are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum user engagement throughout.

As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time to reprint certificates, check and set pass marks and act as proof of a commitment to ongoing legal compliance.

What does my certificate include:

Your Moving and Handling People Training Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.