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The Importance of Good Posture
You’ve no doubt seen this sign before. It is a sign often used near care homes up and down the country, to warn motorists of elderly people crossing the road. The sign has sparked criticism from some for the way it depicts older people. Its not a debate I’m going to get involved with but […]
Revolutionary Simplicity in Manual Handling Training
I recently read a story about a brilliant, pioneering doctor called Peter Provonost. Dr Provonost introduced a revolutionary protocol that saved thousands of lives. His revolutionary technique did not involve nano-technology, he didn’t look inside people’s brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In fact, his protocol was revolutionary only in its simplicity – he introduced […]
Safer Manual Handling – Changing Habits
Anyone who has ever attended an Osteopaths For Industry training course will have heard a discussion about habits. A question we like to ask delegates is “Why don’t we lift with good technique, even though we know we should?” The number one answer we always get is – ‘habit’. A habit is a routine of […]
Moving and Handling in the Health and Social Care industry
Employees in the health and social care sectors may be involved in moving and handling activities such as moving equipment, laundry, catering, distributing supplies or assisting patients/residents in moving. The moving and handling of people is a regular task in health and social care, which if not done safely, can cause serious injury to service […]
Manual Handling – Top 10 Tips infographic
Download our Manual Handling ‘Top 10 Tips’ infographic and share it with your colleagues or workforce. Download in Abobe PDF format. Download in JPEG picture format. [right-click and choose ‘Save as…’]
Don’t take your health for granted – How to avoid upper limb disorders
As human beings, ironically, it is often the body’s more vital functions that we take for granted – for example, the beating of our heart, or the movement of our rib cage inflating our lungs. Unless something goes wrong, we almost forget about the role these vital functions play in keeping us alive. Even in areas […]
Dynamic Risk Assessment – the Onion Model
‘The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice……’ R.D. Laing How many of us, when undertaking risk assessment, sometimes fail to see ‘the wood for the trees’? With any job, becoming entangled in wider workplace issues may end up blurring our focus on the tasks at hand. An adequate […]
Is Sitting the new Smoking?
What would you choose if you were asked to come up with an iconic posture that sums up our 21st century lifestyle? Sadly, I suspect, many of us would visualise someone bent-double over their keyboard at work, or perhaps slouched in full ‘sofa sloth’ style in front of the TV. From the driver’s seat – […]
Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives
As a trainer in the field of Manual Handling training, it is deceptively easy to reinforce the message that we are simply biological machines that need educating in the ‘reality’ of basic mechanics. Staff may have already been exposed to outmoded and prescriptive approaches to training which they know to be too simplistic to make […]