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Category Safety > Healthcare
Manual handling involves tasks such as lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, pulling, sliding, or restraining a person or object. It is the most prevalent cause of injury in the hospital environment. A risk management approach is taken in regard to the health and safety of all staff in the perioperative area. This Manual Handling Healthcare Peri-Operative course will highlight many of manual handling risks in the peri-operative area and will describe to your staff how they can decrease their risk of injury.
Once the course is completed, you will have learned how to perform the various lifts prevalent in the peri-operative area to make them relatively risk-free, as well as how to use the various lifting aids available. This course is one part of and 6-part Manual Handling Healthcare series aimed at clinical and non-clinical healthcare workers.
Perform the various checks prior to lifting and carrying a load
Follow the correct procedures for a team lift and the various types of patient transfers
Utilize mechanical aids where possible to reduce the risk of injury
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