Moving & Handling People is more than just a conference - it is the premier moving and handling people event of the year!

Attending this event will help you to

  • demonstrate practical competencies and CPD in your field of practice
  • be market aware
  • know how products can be developed to meet with your client's needs

The 2011 theme is

'Managing Risk, Improving practice'

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External assessment, reduced resources, financial restrictions, time pressures, increased training demands, meetings, risk assessments, stress, outcomes from legal cases and their impact on work it just goes on. Sound familiar? There is help at hand in the form of the annual Moving and Handling People 2011 Conference.

In order to maintain professional development and awareness of professional and legal issues and help to reduce some of that work stress, look at what this event offers:

  • New Conference format
  • Risk assess and audit your practice
  • Longer interactive practical problem solving workshops
  • Largest moving and handling equipment exhibition for professionals in the UK
  • Network with suppliers and colleagues from around the UK
  • CPD-accredited professional update
  • 1 year’s free access to an information portal of equipment for moving & handling people
  • New Poster competition – chance of a free place at Moving & Handling People 2012

The annual Moving & Handling People event has become recognised as the professional update for those working in this area of practice, designed for both hands-on practitioners and managers with a strategic role in risk management and moving and handling in their organisation.

Key to safer people handling is an awareness of handling techniques and the use of equipment but also understanding how moving and handling is part of health and safety for everyone – carer, patient and client – and how these fit into the wider context of risk management.

The moving and handling of people is a practical science, so the programme reflects the practical nature of handling people and provides a comprehensive exhibition which serves to underpin safe practice through the use of a wide range of products and handling techniques.

The Pre-conference New Products Workshops give attendees an additional opportunity to view and try new products with the benefit of experienced practitioners and suppliers available to give advice and information.

Next years event provides an important update on the latest developments in a number of key areas and is ‘the must attend date for your diary and CPD portfolio' if you are involved in any of the following:

  • Managing and providing a training and advisory service to prevent work related musculoskeletal disorders caused by handling loads
  • Implementing effective policies and strategies to engaging managers and frontline staff in promoting safer practice
  • Bringing legislation & professional guidance together to develop safer systems of work
  • Responsible for moving and handling risk assessments
  • Providing specialised advice
  • Workplace assessments and getting staff back into work

The event provides an excellent networking opportunity to meet practitioners and suppliers.