Manual Handling
- Bed to Chair Transfer - Clickview Video This snippet shows one method of transferring a patient or resident from a bed to a chair. It is relevant for an able-bodied patient with the use of a standing and walking aid. It is important to be aware of the main risk factors to yourself as carer in this task. Manual handling risks can arise due to the awkward positions that a carer may adopt as they assist the patient.
- Bed to Wheelchair Transfer - Clickview Video Shows one method of transferring a patient from a bed to a wheelchair. In this snippet, an electric sling hoist is used to assist the patient. It is important to be aware of the main risk factors to yourself as carer in this task. Manual handling risks can arise due to the need to reach, the low working height involved and awkward positions that a carer may adopt as they assist the patient.
- Making a Bed - Clickview Video This snippet demonstrates the task of bedmaking with two people working together. Bedmaking is a task undertaken regularly and often repeatedly throughout the day. It is important to be aware of the need for good manual handling posture to avoid muscle and back strain. Important points are shown by a pause in the snippet or a symbol to emphasise key points.
- Moving and Handling - Clickview Video Demonstrates how to safely assist service users to move with and without equipment and develops carers’ understanding of how to reduce the risk of back injuries, along with their rights and responsibilities under health and safety law. It also explains the dangers of manual handling of service users and explains why carers cannot safely lift or support the weight of residents.
- Moving and Handling: Assessments - Clickview Video Making proper assessments is an essential part of safe moving and handling practices. This title explains how to conduct several types of assessment and how to be sure that the service user is both protected and encouraged to remain mobile.
- Moving and Handling: Theory - Clickview Video This video will provide a theoretical background to moving and handling to ensure that care workers understand the reasons, both practical and legal, behind safe moving principles. It is filmed in a real working care home and includes animated sequences to illustrate the potential risks of poor manual handling practice to the health of both care workers and service users.
- Moving and Handling: Practical - Clickview Video Focusing on the care home setting, this title will show your staff how to use equipment safely and assist service users in their daily lives.
Legal Aspects and Policies
- Acts and Regulations - Worksafe TasmaniaWorkSafe Tasmania is the part of the Department of Justice that supports the Minister for Building and Construction in the administration of the included laws.
(All links are to the Tasmanian Legislation Online website.) - Tasmanian LegislationWork Health and Safety Act 2012 - The main object of this Act is to provide for a balanced and nationally consistent framework to secure the health and safety of workers and workplaces
- ANMF Workplace Stress Prevention StatementThe Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation (ANMF) recognises that many nurses, midwives and assistants in nursing, in health and aged care are exposed to work-related stress which may affect their psychological and physical well-being.
- First aid in the workplace: Code of practice The code of practice for First aid in the workplace: provides practical guidance on how to manage first aid in the workplace; and how to achieve the standards required under the work health and safety laws; applies to all workplaces; explains how to determine the first aid requirements for your workplace: explains first aid equipment, facilities and training, including first aid kits, signage, procedures and first aiders.
Risk Management
- Low job control and death – Australian study finds a linkCertain work stressors have been connected to health, sick leave and presenteeism, but this study wanted to know their impact on mortality. (2020)
- Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risksThis model Code of Practice has been developed to provide practical guidance for persons who have duties to manage risks to health and safety under the WHS Act and Regulations applying in a jurisdiction
- Nurses at Risk of Injuries - Database ArticleGeneral OneFile Database : Article from: Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal(Vol. 23, Issue 2)
- Risk Assessment - Clickview VideoAn understanding of Health and Safety Risk Assessment will provide the basis of safe working for all your staff. This training resource will help care workers understand how to carry out risk assessments, as well as enable staff to understand what a risk assessment is and how it is vital for all staff to contribute towards keeping risk assessments up to date.
- Risk Management for Nurses - Clickview VideoNursing, like any job, has its inherent risks. But in nursing, more than other fields, risks present themselves on a daily basis, and the impact of these risks can have serious consequences. It is critically important then for nurses to be aware of the risks around them, and be well equipped to deal with them in the best way possible.
- Safe patient handling - Australian Nursing & Midwifery .FederationPDF produced by the ANMF
- Safety SignsAustralian safety signs have been categorised into 6 main types in order to apply a consistent design across similar functions. By understanding the types of signs and their purpose, you can determine what you need in your workplace and where to display them.
- Hazardous manual handling health and safety guideHazardous manual handling can cause injuries known as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). These injuries can be debilitating, long-term and severely affect a person's quality of life.
- Worksafe - Healthcare and hospitals: Safety basicsCommon hazards and risks in healthcare and hospitals - Health and safety in healthcare and hospitals - Risk management process - Health and safety legal duties
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Using Slide Sheets, Frames and Hoists
- Lifts & Slings | Transfer from Chair to Bed (Bariatric) This video provides step-by-step instructions for moving a bariatric patient from a seated position in bed to a wheelchair, using the Viking XL mobile lift, in this case together with a Soft Original HighBack Sling.
- SARA STEDY Frame - Determining the Appropriate Patient Video narrated by Kelly Poggi, P.T. outlining the appropriate patient for the Sara Stedy Standing Frame.
- Sit to Sit Slide sheet Transfer This video demonstrates the Sit to sit transfer from bed to bedside commode, this patient is able to sit on the side of the bed unsupported and maintain balance, but not able to stand. Transfer completed with one slide sheet and one caregiver.
Professional Bodies
- Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care The Commission's purpose is to contribute to better health outcomes and experiences for all patients and consumers, and improved value and sustainability in the health system by leading and coordinating national improvements in the safety and quality of health care.
- Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Health Care The Framework sets out twenty-one areas for action that all people in the health system can take to improve the safety and quality of care provided in all healthcare settings over the next decade.
- ComCare Works "with employees and employers to minimise the impact of harm in the workplace, improve recovery at and return to work, and promote the health benefits of work through good work design."
- Safe Work Australia SWA is an Australian government statutory body established in 2008 to develop national policy relating to WHS and workers’ compensation.
- State Insurance Regulatory Body - NSWWorkers compensation system.
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