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Moving And Handling Course

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What will I learn?

Improve your work place safety skills with our proper Moving and Handling Course (Safe Patient Handling Training). This course is for safety officers/health workers and it teaches things like how to check for danger, how to use your body well (ergonomics), and how to use tools to help move people safely. You will learn how to talk well with patients, how to handle them with care, and how to move them safely from places like a bed to a wheelchair. You will also learn about the human body, how to make patients comfortable, and how to write down what you did correctly. Make yourself a better expert and make your workplace safer with our good and practical training.

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Online and lifetime access to courses
Certificate aligned with educational standards
PDF summaries for easy printing
Online support available at all times
Select and arrange the chapters you want to study
Set your own course workload
Instant feedback on practical activities
Study at your convenience, no internet required

Develop skills

Strengthen the development of the practical skills listed below

Learn how to check for danger before moving and handling people safely.

Use your body well (ergonomics) to make your workplace safer.

Do proper ways of moving patients from one place to another.

Write down and think about how you moved patients.

Talk well with patients and make them trust you.

Suggested summary

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before starting, you can change the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to start with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can add

You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.