Moving and Handling People Safely
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Follow each person’s moving and handling plan, recognise and refuse unsafe techniques and check hoists and slings before every use.
- Assign to
- Care workers
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Follow each person’s moving and handling plan.
- Recognise and refuse unsafe techniques.
- Check hoists and slings before every use.
- Report when a plan no longer fits the person.
The course
- 01The law and the plan
- 02Unsafe techniques
- 03Hoists and slings
- 04When the plan doesn’t fit
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Fix Len’s transfer”, learners fix a realistic form and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “What an under-arm lift does” and “Two transfers”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
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Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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