Concurrent Session 1: Preparing a Business Case for Moving & Handling Equipment

Practical advice and guidance on preparing a business case for moving & handling equipment.

Ken Cookson, Manual Handling Advisor, Training & Development, Aintree Hospitals NHS Trust

Concurrent Session 2: Reducing the Load – How Many Handlers are Required for Handling Tasks

How many workers does it take to safely handle a client? Accurate moving and handling assessment is needed to ensure the right number and savings in manpower and money are increasingly important factors in the restricted public sector. How your organisation could approach this issue will be discussed with the aim of identifying safe staffing levels.

Sheenagh Orchard, Training Consultant

Concurrent Session 3: Moving & Handling Training and Education: Delivery and Practice

Training and education is key to safe practice; what are the most effective ways of providing this to workers? The presenter will consider educational pathways in moving and handling, future developments, recommendations and standards. This session will include a discussion of the DLF moving and handling educational pathway, CSP guidance on education in moving and handling and National Back Exchange's structure for moving and handling advisers.

Philippa Bromley, Head of Independent Living, DLF

Concurrent Session 4: Moving and Handling the Client with Mental and Physical Impairment

Due to some client’s mental and physical impairment their mobility, perception of safety and physical ability will be affected. Dealing with this type of client’s moving and handling assessment highlights many handling issues including restraint, dealing with a falling & fallen client, safety strategies and equipment

Sandy Laping and Katie Ryall, Care Service Managers, Active Assistance