Reducing Moving And Handling Risks
Reducing moving and handling risks where you are assisting people rather than moving objects requires something object handling never needs. Assessment before each transfer.
A load is the same today as yesterday. A person is not. Capacity varies with medication, pain, fatigue, mood and time of day, and a resident who transferred with one assist yesterday morning may need two this afternoon.
So the controls sit around the assessment. A current mobility plan accessible at the point of care, not filed. Authority for staff to change the method when the person presents differently. Equipment available and close enough that using it is not slower than not using it. And two staff genuinely available rather than nominally rostered.
The last is where most care settings fail, and it is a rostering decision rather than a training one.
Safe Work Australia publishes the model code. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s manual handling course for disability and healthcare workers and risk management system.
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