Safety</title? <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#66FFFF" text="#666666"> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><b><font size="3">SAFETY</font></b></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Often in the health care environment there is a need to consider both as the sick, disabled and elderly often use equipment, so workers need to be taught how to safely move both people and things/objects. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The current streams available in Australia are: </font></p> <ul> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Patient Handling (acute care) </font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Aged Care </font></li> <li><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Industrial Loads </font></li> </ul> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> See our <strong><em>Courses Available, Courses for Industry & Courses for Healthcare</em></strong> on the main website page. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> The Manutention approach works well regardless of what load you want to move. The same postures, actions and principles can be applied to moving any load in a safe manner. So it doesn’t matter whether you are talking about moving the dishwasher, using a portable hoist to move a non-weight bearing older person or putting a child in a car seat – the same risk management processes followed by self protective behaviours occurs. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> When looking at loads, a variety of industrial loads are considered: boxes, poles, large bulky electrical items, tyres and large sheets of particle board to name a few. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> People can be considered a complex load to be moved; given that they may change shape at any given moment, be floppy or rigid, can be unpredictable and need to be handled with comfort, safety and dignity. </font></p> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Sometimes they have attachments, their weight is not necessarily evenly distributed, they can be a biological hazard, skin integrity needs to be maintained, and people generally don’t come with convenient “handles”. People may also have pathologies or surgical procedures which require you to avoid placing them in certain positions. </font></p> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">All these factors make the movement of people complex and challenging. Manutention uses the risk management principles, postures and actions and encourages maximum participation of the person to determine the safest and effort efficient outcome for all parties. </font> <p align="center"> </p> <p> </p> <p align="center"><a href="Visitor.htm"><img src="Visitor_files/Edu10.jpg" width="123" height="218" align="middle" vspace="5" hspace="5" border="5"></a></p> <p> </p> </body> </html>