‘Counterbalance’
The NEWSLETTER OF the AAMP(WA)INC
The
AAMP National Trainers Form in July 2002 held at the University of South
Australia, saw the accreditation of even more AAMP Trainers including 5
from WA & even 4 from New Zealand!
(see photo below) WA
Trainers in both Loads & HealthCare are: §
Tina
Barker §
Galit Beckitt §
Jason
Diederich §
Peter
Duncan §
Emma Gregory §
Marani
Hutton §
Veronica
Naughton §
Alison
Rayner §
Heather
Reid §
Kerry Reid WA
Trainers in the HealthCare field are: §
Janet Boer-Draffin §
Gisela
Gmeinder §
Colleen
Hansen WA
Trainers in the field of Loads are: §
Chris
McAlinden §
Scott
McMahon §
Jane Morrissey §
Averil
Riley The contact details of any AAMP(WA) Inc trainer may be
obtained by visiting the AAMP website: www.manutention.org
on the Western Australian ‘State’ page
Volume 2, Issue 3 September
2002
AAMP(WA) Committee . . .
nominate NOW for 2003! Email nominations now for YOUR
2003 committee to our Admin Assistant, Janet Boer-Draffin, on boer@bigpond.net.au or post them to AAMPWA Admin Assistant
PO Box 18 Subiaco WA - Chris McAlinden
& Scott McMahon (Loads) - Gisela Gmeinder (Health Care)
There is to be an AGM of AAMP(WA) Inc on
25
November 2002.
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WHY NOT CHECK IT OUT !! So you want to learn more about Manutention? Here is a summary of available
courses. . . This
level of competency is achieved by completing a total of 3 essential
modules and 1 elective module as follows: ESSENTIAL
MODULES o
Hostel
/ Community Care o
Generic
Hospital o
Rehabilitation
/ Orthopaedics ELECTIVE MODULES o
Nursing
Home / Disability Services o
Emergency
Services / Theatre Here let
people know of changes?? The AAMP
Home Page GOES LIVE! The Manutention Home Page has
now been officially placed on the Internet. The site address is: TO BE ADDED Our thanks go to Cliff Boer,
the web-master, for engineering the website. Also, to Jason Diederich, Heather Reid and others who
provided information, photos, ideas and feedback. The site is set up to allow
each state to develop their specific pages independently. WHY NOT CHECK IT OUT !! - Heather Reid & Tina
Barker Manutention Refresher Course in Healthcare
. . . . . . Book Now!! To remain competent in using the Manutention approach
to Manual Handling, regular training is highly recommended by AAMP. This one-day Refresher Course for
HealthCare, is also a great time to problem solve your manual handling
issues and further reduce injury in the workplace This course, the first of many future opportunities to
update, is to be held on 20th September 2002, at Silver Chains’
Training Rooms – 11 Moolanda
Boulevard, Kingsley. This is an opportunity to
benefit from your AAMP(WA) membership, as the cost for this one-day update
will be only $90.00 for AAMP(WA) members and $120.00 for non-members! Future dates for both HealthCare and Loads Updates will
be set at the Planning Day on 21st September Please register your interest with Janet - AAMP (WA)’s
administration assistant The
AAMP Web site The
Manutention Home Page has now been officially placed on the Internet. The site
address is: www.manutention.org.au AAMP(WA) Inc
members, please note: The current
password for entering the member’s page on the site is attached to this
newsletter. Contact our Admin
Assistant if you have any queries The site
is set up to allow each state to develop their specific pages
independently.
General Loads Handling
Courses:
Manual Handling Courses for
the Health Care Industry:
As part of a programme to
prevent injury in the workplace, Silver Chain has recently initiated a
manual handling training programme using the Manutention approach. ‘Following a six month trial,
over 560 staff have now been trained by Sue Forrest, our Manutention
Training Coordinator. Sue has
worked as a nurse and an occupational safety and health officer, so she
has first hand experience of the potential hazards involved in lifting,
pulling, carrying and other activities requiring the use of force. Manutention is a French word
meaning ‘manual handling’ and is used to brand an approach developed by
Paul Dotte, a French physiotherapist. This method enables people to
learn how to minimise effort and maximise results through understanding
safe postures and movements.
Manutention is about using major muscle groups and body weight to
assist in manual handling activities, ranging from transferring a person
to moving a box of paper. Sue Forrest says the feedback
from the trial has been overwhelming and, as a result, the training
program has become an integral part of Silver Chain’s risk management
approach. It is now fully integrated
into our occupational safety and health training program and we expect
this to reduce the incidence of carers’ back pain and injury.’ AAMP(WA)
would like to acknowledge Silver Chain and photographer Robert Frith for
this photo and article. As of January 2002 it is planned to tie the membership
to a Calendar year rather than the financial year. In addition, a system of membership
reminders is to be established to assist members in renewing their membership
with ease. Please let us know by sending suggestions to our Admin
Assistant, Janet Boer-Draffin on: boer@bigpond.net.au A Message
from our ‘Parent’ Organisation, in France . . . . . Hello, Thankyou for informing us about the opening of your
‘website’. It is very interesting. Bravo! It is a great satisfaction for us, for SIFAM, and for
Paul Dotte himself, to know and to see this distribution (broadcasting)
that you have made of the concepts and Methods of MANUTENTION. Both he and we are happy to contribute to the benefit
of both patients and nursing (in Australia). Gisela Gmeinder (from AAMPWA) visited us. I made the most of this opportunity to answer her
questions about us. She will explain to you our way of working and the
impact that we have in Europe. You
can count on us a future resource. Do not hesitate to contact us. Cordially to you, Jason, and to all your Colleagues. Lionel Marco. AAMP(WA) Inc . . . . . . .Some
Facts & Figures Current Individual Membership: 80+ Current Corporate members include: Bunnings Collie
Health Service North Metropolitan Health Service Silver Chain Cerebral
Palsy Assoc Rocky Bay Inc ORS
Consulting Group Nulsen Haven Churches
of Christ
This is a translation of an email which was received by AAMP(WA)’s
Treasurer, Jason Diederich from Lionel Marko, Delegate General of ‘SIFAM
–Service Information Formation Actives au Manutention’, after he viewed
our new website
Thankyou to all financial members of AAMP(WA) inc for
your payments this year. A reminder that all memberships are due again in
January 2003. They were reduced to
a 6month membership this year to bring the memberships into line with the
calendar year. If you have completed a course in either Health Care or
Loads that was assessed at AQF Certificate 2 between January 2002 and July
2002, you are automatically a member until December 2002. The opportunity to renew membership will be offered
again in January 2003. What do you
want from your Association? Please let us
know by sending suggestions to our Admin Assistant, Janet Boer-Draffin on: or by leaving a
bulletin on the members page on the web site Mark
in your diary . . . . 2002 AGM for
AAMP(WA) Change of date for the next
AAMP(WA) Inc Annual General Meeting. This meeting will be held at the
Education Development Centre in ‘Q’ block at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital
Nedlands on: 25
November 2002, at 5.30pm. ALL MEMBERS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND. Another ‘Planning Day’ for AAMP(WA) 21st September 2002 At our Admin
Assistant, Janet Boer- Draffin’s Home 9 Witney
Place, Leeming WA 6149 10.30am – 4.30pm ALL WELCOME (just register your attendance)
Please bring yourself, your enthusiasm & a plate to share for lunch
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