MANUTENTION - WHAT IS IT?
Manutention helps you to develop safe movement behaviour by learning a system of postures and actions focusing on effective use of the big muscles in your thighs, maintaining a neutral spine, moving your feet, bracing or bracketing for support and using a shift of body weight. These postures and actions can be integrated into any activity whether it is moving a person, animal or thing. The training in self protective behaviours is useful in all environments where people have to push, pull, lift, lower, carry, move, hold or restrain people, animals or objects. When you are working with people you also consider how you can use normal movement patterns to maximise their involvement and reduce carer effort.
Manutention sits well within a risk management framework recognising the need for well designed workplaces, appropriate and adequate equipment, adequate staffing levels and team work. But it also acknowledges that even in the best designed workplaces, including organisations with a “no lift” policy, an element of manual handling or body positioning still exists. Manutention provides the skills to ensure that these manual handling tasks are carried out safely.