Course Summary
Our Patient Moving & Handling Course is designed to help delegates comply with current legal requirements in the workplace in relation to safely moving and handling patients or clients in a variety of healthcare-related settings. Also to understand the structure of the back and the ways in which it can become injured and how to apply the principles of safe moving and handling to prevent injury or illness.
Over 50% of injuries and illness within the healthcare industry are of the back and shoulder and occur owing to the poor handling and moving of patients. The Patient Moving & Handling Course content is designed to highlight the problems associated with patient handling and sets out the best practices in dealing with them.
This course runs regularly at our Chester training centre. Please contact us for more details: 01829 732 615