HEADS Training can provide your organisation with a range of Moving and Handling Training courses. We offer a 1 day courses that cover moving people safely, as well as an awareness raising 1/2 day course, please see the course content below.
Moving and Handling Training (including the moving of people) – 1 Day Course
Venue: Hadrian School, Newcastle upon Tyne
Date: TBC
Time:8.30am – 2.30pm
Price: £150.00 per person
To book a place please contact Hadrian School.
The course covers a wide range of issues that are relevant to the moving and handling of people, including:
- Back and spine care
- Hazards in manual handling
- Injuries from manual handling injuries and their causes
- Assessing manual handling situations
- Principles of safe lifting
- Ergonomics
- Mechanical aids, hoists and slings
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations
- Working and communicating as a team
- Sitting, standing and walking
- Bed mobility
We can facilitate an inhouse session for up to 12 staff at your organisation for the cost of £800
1/2 Day Awareness Training
We can also facilitate courses on demand like our 3 hours awareness raising course that we facilitate in-house, so if you have a specific training requirement around moving and handling please get in touch to see if we can meet your needs.
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Our Awareness Training can cover what you require and can include the topics below:
- Health and Safety Legislation
- Spinal Awareness
- Muscular Skeletal Injuries
- Looking after yourself
- The AAPEE System of safer manual handling
- Base to Face safety check points
- Object Handling Techniques
- Understanding Disability
- Methods of holding
- Manual Handling aids and therapy equipment
- Hoists and slings
The cost of the awareness raising session is £400.00 for the 3 hours, you can have up to a maximum of 12-16 staff.