Effective Manual Handling Training for Safety at Work

1. Julia Love Freelance Manual Handling Practitioner LPS Training & Consultancy Ltd LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

2. Reflections on Moving & Handling Training LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

3. What is Training • the process of learning the skills you need to do a particular job or activity (Cambridge Dictionary) • The action of teaching a person a particular skill or type of behaviour (Oxford English Dictionary) • The acquisition of knowledge and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills (Reece & Walker 2007) LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

4. What does the law require? • HSAWA 1974 • The Employer has to provide a safe system of work • The employer must provide adequate information, instruction, training and supervision LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

5. Health Services advisory committee (HSAC 1984) • Systems should be in place to reduce risk of injury. Training should be given to: • heighten awareness of manual handling • develop safer techniques • use equipment • on induction and regular refreshers. • Updated in 1992 • training for people handling 3 – 5 days. • Long enough for explanation, demonstration and practice. LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

6. Management of HSAW 92 and 99 • Training should be both adequate and appropriate • On induction • New responsibilities • New work equipment/systems • And at regular intervals LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

7. Is training effective? If not, why not LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

8. HSE (2007) concluded: • training alone is ineffective in reducing the rate of back injuries associated with MH • training should be supplemented by monitoring and reviews, to ensure training is understood and being applied LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

9. HSE guidance • Manual handling training should include: • Risk factors and how injuries occur • How to carry out safe manual handling – good techniques • Appropriate systems • Use of aids & Equipment • Practical work to allow the trainer to identify and correct trainee LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

10. NBE Standards, 2010 • Training should not just be in induction. • Staff need • Continued training and refreshers – to update skills and competencies throughout working life • Training based on a training needs analysis • Training that is long enough to develop a change in knowledge, attitude and skills LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

11. What type of training doesn’t work? • Educational/classroom based training alone • Training delivered by e-learning/video alone • Teaching techniques alone LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

12. What type of training is most effective? • Training that is tailored to trainees knowledge • Ergonomic interventions – adapting the training to suit the person and tasks • Training that is work specific and relevant • Training that is reinforced/supervised in workplace • Pam Rose HOP 6 LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

13. What else aids the delivery of training? Consider the ability and attention span of students LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

14. Bloom’s Taxonomy Create, compose, imagine Decide, justify, recommend Investigate, distinguish between Solve, compare, design Explain, interpret, discuss State, List, describe

15. Teaching Strategies • Lecture • Demonstration • Discussion • Question and Answer • Video • Quiz • Practical, following demonstration • Role Play • Case study • Problem solving assignment

16. DALE’S CONE OF EXPERIENCEPeople generally Remember

17. Benners Stages of clinical competence

18. What Learning Style are You?

19. What Learning Style are You? Honey & Mumford Activist Reflector Theorist Pragmatist

20. Challenges in Training • Activist • Take unnecessary risks • Go into action without sufficient prep/weighing up all possibilities • Gets bored easily • Reflector • Thoughtful & analytical • Adopts low profile • Careful, thorough and methodical. Risk Averse LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

21. Challenges in Training • Theorist • Logical and objective • Perfectionist and likes to thinks things through • Good at asking probing questions • Like ‘should’ and ‘must’ • Pragmatist • Down to earth • Good problem-solver • Keen to test things out in practice LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

22. What Learning Style are You? Visual Kinaesthetic Auditory

23. Challenges in Training • Visual • Need visual prompts • Like diagrams, charts and pictures • Will enjoy demonstrations • Auditory • Need key words stressed • Like anecdotes, case studies • Want to consolidate with words • Kinaesthetic • Need to move about • Enjoy activities and practical exercises LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

25. So…. How do we use this in the moving and handling Training room? LPS TRAINING & CONSULTANCY LTD

26. Training Tips & Tricks • Be a good listener • - find out what your delegates issues are • - demonstrate you are listening to them • - use reflection to reinforce

27. Training Tips & Tricks • 2. Be clear with the plan for the session • - ‘News at 10’ • - Be a good time-keeper

28. Training Tips & Tricks • 3. Make the learning experiential • - practical exercises to illustrate theory • - keep theory to a minimum • - keep people moving • - get them to work it out themselves

29. Training Tips & Tricks • 4. Less is more • - don’t cram in too much • - only teach what is relevant • - don’t demonstrate if students cant practise

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