Moving & Handling People

Duration: 50 Minutes

Poor moving and handling technique accounts for around 7000 injuries reported within the health services and social care each year, so having the correct training is critical to ensure nurses, carers and staff exercise best practice and carry out their work safely.

This Moving and Handling People course is designed particularly for people in the social care and NHS sectors, to help them identify and understand the risks of moving patients or elderly residents, as well as teaching them the best ways to move people safely for them.

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

​This programme will help you to recognise where lifting and moving could be hazardous and shows you the correct steps to lift and move safely. It looks at the person you are helping and what you can do to make sure you’ve thought of everything before you lift or move them. This kind of health and safety training for moving people ultimately aims to reduce the chance of injury when moving people in your care.

Moving & Handling People Course Contents

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.

It’s the same for any task where you are moving anything, but lifting and moving a person is more complex and requires more thought and consideration.

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. Clear instruction shows you how to maintain good posture during the lifts and moves.

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.

Test & Certificate

There will be one or two questions in between sections which are designed to reinforce learning and ensure maximum engagement but do not count towards the final test. This test usually has around 20 multiple choice questions and when passed, a printable certificate can be downloaded.

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