Course Description
Safe manual handling is an important part of life for everyone, but it’s especially important for those working in the care sector. The types of manual handling tasks that staff might use during their work day include lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and holding. If these manual handling tasks are performed incorrectly or unsafely, it puts both the staff member and the individual at risk of serious injury.
It is essential that staff can safely move the people they support, following the individual’s care plan and applying best practice manual handling principles. This includes using the appropriate equipment, such as a stand-up or full sling hoist, to minimise risk to the person and the staff member. Staff must always complete the task with the person, not for the person, in order to maintain dignity and independence.
This engaging, high-quality video-based training module delivers practical, evidence-based techniques designed to support two key outcomes: maintaining client independence and mobility, while safeguarding carers from injury. Multiple aims and outcomes will be delivered as separate modules. Through immersive scenario-based content, staff gain the skills and confidence to apply safe, effective manual handling practices in real-world aged care settings.
Learning Outcomes
Safe manual handling protects both the person being supported to move and the staff providing support. This course outlines the principles of manual handling and how they apply to moving people in the care and support setting.
By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
– Explain the principles of manual handling
– Demonstrate how to safely support a person to walk without equipment
– Demonstrate how to safely support a person to roll, using their own body mechanics
– Demonstrate how to safely support a person to move off the floor without equipment
– Demonstrate how to safely support a person to walk, using a transfer belt
– Demonstrate how to safely use slide sheets to assist a person to roll
– Demonstrate how to safely support a person to stand up and move from a bed to a chair, using a walking frame
– Demonstrate how to safely use slide sheets to assist a person to move up an air chair
– Demonstrate how to safely use slide sheets to assist a person to move up the bed
– Demonstrate how to assist a person who is weight bearing to move from a chair to a wheelchair safely, using a stand-up hoist
– Demonstrate how to safely assist a person to move from a bed to a chair, using a full sling hoist
– Demonstrate how to safely assist a person to move off the floor, using a full sling hoist
– Demonstrate how to safely assist a person to move off the floor, using a lifting cushion
– Demonstrate how to safely assist a person to move to a trolley, using a transfer board and slide sheets
Course Code:
AOC17272-B-H-AUCPD Points:
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Dr. Rik Dawson is an aged care physiotherapist, former managing director of Agewell Physiotherapy, and the President Elect of the Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA). Rik is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health at the University of Sydney. Rik focuses on the effectiveness of physiotherapy, exercise, and telehealth in reducing falls and improving mobility among older people.
Last Updated:
23/06/2025 12:00 am