Who is this training for?

Today the cost of musculoskeletal injuries in the healthcare sector is still enormous. This course seeks to redress this trend by teaching sound knowledge and understanding of safer people handling in a way that staff will understand how their spines work, how they can be easily damaged by doing the wrong things and how, by adapting sound principles to the many and varied situations that they find in their daily work, they can protect their own health and that of the people they care for.

What does the course cover?

Whether your organisation is a hospital, a hospice, a nursing or care home, or is involved in caring for people in the community – whether in their own homes or social residences - then your staff will be required to complete our Safer Patient Handling training Course. Handling people with dignity and care is important to ensure that the risk of injury to yourself, and the people which you care for is reduced. People Handling training is a necessity for any healthcare organisation.

What is the benefit to your business?

Our People Handling training course seeks to redress this trend by teaching sound knowledge, helping participants to understand how to handle people with more dignity and care.

“More than a third of all over-three-day injuries reported each year are caused by manual handling - the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force. Effective training has an important part to play in reducing the risk of manual handling injury.”

HSE - Health Safety Executive

Test and Certification

At the end of the course you will be given a test of 20 multiple choice questions. The required pass rate is 85%.

You will be able to download and print (if required) a digital certificate on completion of the course.

Course certificate lasts for 3 years

Course Duration

Approximately 30 minutes. (excluding time taken for the final exam)