Knowing how to move and handle people correctly is vital to providing the utmost care for your patients and ensures that they are not harmed. You do not want any legal proceedings based on incorrect processes being taken. This is why any employee who works with people who need to be moved or handled as a part of their role needs to know what they are doing and do it safely.

Our online Moving and Handling of People content is designed to provide users with the essential knowledge and understanding of the safe process of moving people to prevent injury to themselves and the person being moved, whilst also covering the legal requirements regarding the handling of people.

The course will cover the following areas:

• Health and Safety at Work 1974
• Manual Handling Regulations 1999
• Duty of care
• Moving and handling assessments
• Basic principles of safer handling
• Company handling policy
• Anatomy
• Unsafe moves
• Working with equipment
• Moving and transferring

e Learning courses are designed to be interactive to help learners stay focused and engaged in the learning they are faced with.

The courses require the learner to perform small actions within the course, revealing further information, or quiz questions to help them reflect upon previous course content they have studied. A CPD certificate can be downloaded on completion.