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People Moving and Handling Training for your Employees

Moving and Handling of People training delivered at your own site, or at our venue in the City of London. OFI is a leading provider of Moving & Handling of People Training for many leading UK industries, institutions, and organisations.

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Osteopaths For Industry’s training portfolio offers an extensive range of people moving and handling practical skills training courses. Below are our most popular training courses for your employees, but we can tailor the duration and content of courses to meet your exact requirements.

MOVING AND HANDLING OF PEOPLE - 1 DAY PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING

Overview of course content:

A practical, step-by-step course to teach (and refresh) delegates on safer techniques for the supporting, lifting, moving, and handling of people. Maximum of 10 delegates per course. Time is set-aside at the end to consolidate what has been taught during the training. Certificates are issued to delegates on the successful completion of the course.

Course objectives:
  • Be aware of current legislation appropriate to the moving and handling of people.
  • Understand basic facts about musculoskeletal injury and the importance of prevention.
  • Understanding of basic functional spinal anatomy and the importance of good posture in moving and handling.
  • Recognise a risk situation in moving and handling and gain an appreciation of dynamic risk assessment.
  • Understand the principles of moving and handling and the theory behind the principles.
  • Observe and demonstrate good handling techniques.
  • Observe and be able to apply the principles of good handling technique to practical situations of moving and handling (for one and two carer techniques).
Specific practical techniques covered:
  • Walking a client
  • The use of mobility aids
  • Falling and fallen client
  • Handing clients in and around chairs
  • Sit-stand/stand-sit
  • Chair and bed transfers
  • Hoist training – mobile hoists and slings.
AT OUR SITE - SUITABLE FOR INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL GROUPS
  • London 1 day People Moving & Handling Practical Skills course, 1st July 2024: £95 + VAT per delegate

Our ‘public’ people moving & handling practical skills course is available to anyone to book, and is ideal for training 1 to 6 delegates without all the added cost and complexity of arranging ‘on-site’ training at your own workplace.

This in-person (face-to-face training) ‘public’ course takes place at our venue in the City of London (EC3 postcode) and is limited to 10 delegates. Certificates are issued to delegates on the successful completion of the course, and these have a 3-year validity.

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AT YOUR SITE

This course can be scheduled at any time for groups of 3 or more, subject to availability of our trainers. Please contact us for a tailored quotation, specific to your training requirements.

Our ‘at your site’ People Moving and Handling training courses are customised to suit your employees’ specific working environment, the moving and handling activities they conduct, and the specific handling equipment and apparatus that they use.

Our expert trainers can review your current Moving and Handling Risk Assessments and Moving and Handling Policy, and then develop a specific course to train your employees in the most effective way possible. We have found that this ‘customised’ approach provides your staff with quality training that stays with them.

Our 1-day course is suitable for groups of up to 10 delegates.

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BARIATRIC HANDLING - 1 DAY PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING

Overview of course content:

Bariatric handling / plus sized handling course. An introduction to best practice and equipment. Maximum of 10 delegates per course.

Course objectives:
  • Be aware of current legislation appropriate to the moving and handling of people.
  • Understand basic facts about musculoskeletal injury and the importance of prevention.
  • Understanding of basic functional spinal anatomy and the importance of good posture in moving and handling.
  • Recognise a risk situation in moving and handling and gain an appreciation of dynamic risk assessment.
  • Observe and be able to apply the principles of good bariatric handling technique to practical situations of bariatric moving and handling.
Specific practical techniques covered:
  • Bariatric handling techniques
AT OUR SITE - SUITABLE FOR INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL GROUPS
  • London 1 day People Moving & Handling Practical Skills course, 2nd July 2024: £TBA + VAT per delegate

Our ‘public’ bariatric moving & handling practical skills course is available to anyone to book, and is ideal for training 1 to 6 delegates without all the added cost and complexity of arranging ‘on-site’ training at your own workplace.

This in-person (face-to-face training) ‘public’ course takes place at our venue in the City of London (EC3 postcode) and is limited to 10 delegates. Certificates are issued to delegates on the successful completion of the course, and these have a 3-year validity.

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AT YOUR SITE

This course can be scheduled at any time for groups of 3 or more, subject to availability of our trainers. Please contact us for a tailored quotation, specific to your training requirements.

Our 1-day course is suitable for groups of up to 10 delegates.

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Your employees will be fully supported throughout their certification period with the following free services:

Expert Help & Advice
Your colleagues have quick access to our experts for advice on any Moving and Handling issues they may have. We ensure that queries are answered within a maximum of 24 hours. Queries are submitted by email initially and one of our experts will call back to discuss the issue and help to resolve the problem.

Detailed Course Notes
Our Course Notes provide you with a detailed resource to reference at any time after the course. We are able to fully customise these to bring them in line with your corporate branding, including logos and pictures from your work sites, and to alter the content of the course notes to suit your working practices, processes and equipment in use.

Health & Safety Executive Material
We also provide several relevant documents from the HSE relating to Manual Handling, such as the MAC Tool and information on Manual Handling Aids.

Service Support ManagerRoyal Free London NHS Trust

Osteopaths For Industry successfully trained a number of our staff, including managers and care assistants to be qualified moving and handling trainers. Feedback has been very positive from all those involved in the training.

DelegateUniversity of Essex

It was expecting just another boring training course, but actually I was pleasantly surprised! – I actually really enjoyed the course and learnt a lot. Thanks!

Team LeaderEpping Forest College

Laurence did a fantastic job providing practical skills refresher training to my team. He also took the time to work through some of the specific issues I've been having. Would recommend for sure.

Refuse Handling TeamGuildford Borough Council

On-site practical manual handling skills training for my refuse collection team. The team were engaged and seemed to really take the training on board - great job.

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