Knowledge Centre Blogs
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...
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 gra...
Clinical Individual Award Presented to OFI Trainer Emma Tarpey
OFI congratulates one of its manual handling consultants, Emma Tarpey, for her rece...
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...
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 c...
Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives
As a trainer in the field of Manual Handling training, it is deceptively easy to reinforce the me...
Caring for your Mental and Emotional Wellbeing
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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 ...
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...
Explain the 'why' behind the 'how'
Have you ever left a training session feeling fuzzy about the connection between how to do a corr...
Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies
Weaving Anecdotes and real-life Case Studies into our training sessions helps to communicate lear...
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 ...
Apply the ‘Stages of Change’ model to your training
Research supports the ‘Stages of Change Model' in its approach to education in Risk Management R...
Working from home
Tips for setting up your computer workstation & staying physically healthy when homeworking ...
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 yiel...
Advice for Manual Handling trainers - How to make your courses more engaging
Training isn't just important - it is vital! So it's vital that you get your message across. Mak...
Top 5 tips for improving staff morale
Do your employees drag themselves into work? Is a smile a vague memory? If so, your employees' mo...
Cutting-Edge DSE Risk Assessment tool from Osteopaths for Industry
Are you responsible for the health and safety of your colleagues? Do they use computers at the...
Moving and Handling Training: The Bariatric Patient
As obesity levels increase in the UK, the care of the bariatric patient has extended over the pas...