Course Overview

Hazardous manual handling practises in the workplace can result in significant and irreversible musculoskeletal injuries. This Mandatory Training Module teaches the principles of recognising and reducing unsafe manual handling tasks in the workplace to avoid injury.

Topics

• Principles of safe manual handling in the workplace
• How to identify and assess manual handling hazards
• How to mitigate manual handling risks

Learning Outcomes

• Define hazardous manual handling in the workplace.
• Perform the four steps to managing manual handling risks.
• Incorporate additional strategies to prevent injury at work.
• Locate and understand relevant manual handling regulations and guidelines used in your workplace.

Target Audience

All staff members in any healthcare setting.

Disclosure

No conflict of interest exists for anyone in the position to control content for this activity. Wherever possible, generic or non-proprietary names of medications or products have been used.

Educator

Sally-Ann de-Vitry Smith View profile

Dr Sally de-Vitry Smith is currently the National Program Manager of the Australian Nurse-Family Partnership Program. This program targets Indigenous mothers and is part of the Australian Governments Closing the Gap Strategy. Sally has worked as the Nursing and Midwifery Advisor for the ACT Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, research midwife, Midwifery Course Coordinator and academic. She has worked in Cambodia as a Senior Midwifery Advisor, in high risk maternal foetal medicine in the United States and volunteered as a clinical midwife in Vanuatu. Sally has spoken at national and international conferences, written articles, book chapters and recently had her first book published. Sally’s interests include self-care for health professionals, epigenetics and the impact of early childhood adverse events on the life course.