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Manual Handling – Top 10 Tips infographic
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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 […]
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 […]
Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Make sure you monitor and evaluate!
It’s all very well updating your training methodologies, but if you’ve got no evaluation process in place you have no idea of what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you build a robust review system involving both management and operative/worker feedback. This should run concurrently with each stage of the programme. OFI suggests that this […]
Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training
Hands-on practical skills training is an absolute must. Too much spoken information can lead to a lower rate of learning retention. This is why our team of instructors, each a fully qualified osteopath or physiotherapist, use mixed training methods in their sessions, striking the right balance between verbal and physical instruction. We develop our spoken […]
Explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’
Have you ever left a training session feeling fuzzy about the connection between how to do a correct procedure, and why it is necessary to do it that way? Then it wasn’t one of OFIs courses! Our instructors have honed their training skills over more than 25 years, and go to great efforts to ensure […]
Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies
Weaving Anecdotes and real-life Case Studies into our training sessions helps to communicate learning more clearly. That is what we have discovered, over the course of more than 20 years delivering top quality training. So why is this the case? Well, we believe that the use of anecdotes and case studies help to create friendly […]
Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Mix up your training method!
Make your manual handling courses more engaging by refreshing your training methods. Let’s face it: The mention of “Manual Handling training” is hardly likely to instil joy in the hearts of your employees. So how can you make your training courses more engaging? What is the essential ingredient of a stimulating training session that engages […]
Advice for Manual Handling Trainers – Tailor your course to fit your audience
Make courses more engaging by customising training to suit your delegates. Research has yielded compelling evidence that tailored education to suit differing roles or recipient groups (i.e. management or operatives) is more effective. Tailored training works! For example, in the case of Manual Handling, it is clearly important to educate and promote risk awareness among […]