Move and position individuals in accordance with their plan of care
Click to watch a 3-minute video demonstrating safe lifting and manual handling techniques.Watch the video and take notes on the correct practice. Click on the right arrow to watch a second video.
Table of Contents
- Tutorial Video
- Reading Materials
- ‘Manual handling Assessment Chart (MAC) Tool’ published by the Health and Safety Executive Click on the icon to learn more about this method for assessing risk in manual handling.
- ‘Manual handling’ published by Healthy Working Lives
- 'Management of moving and handling’ from the Health and Safety Executive
- ‘How to move, lift and handle someone else’ published by the NHS.
- Find your organisation’s policies and procedures on moving and handling, consent, and personal care.
- ‘Moving with the times’ by Elizabeth Hallows in the SEN Magazine.
- Presentation
- Good Practice Example
- Interactive Quiz
- Evidence Opportunities
- Extended Learning
- Clickthe link to the YouTube website where there are a selection of videos that demonstrate how to move an individual carefully and effectively, using different methods and equipment. Watch those that are relevant to your role.
- Click the link to the left to visit the Get Body Smart website where you can look at the skeletal system and muscular system to understand what parts of the body we use when moving and handling. Click each link in the website to further explore parts of the body.
- The National Education Union has advice on the health and safety issues relating to lifting and handling that school staff face while at work in their article ‘Lifting and handling’.
- Read this document from Public Health England to learn more about the ‘Guidance on infection control in schools and other childcare settings’.
- This document refers to Scottish legislation but ‘The common-sense approach on moving and handling of disable children and young people’ contain practical advice and useful case studies.
- Think And Challenge
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