Health and social care L02

• Manual Handling is:

  • The term manual handling covers a wide variety of activities including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying. If any of these tasks are not carried out appropriately there is a risk of injury.
• Manual handling training should include:

  · Information on risk factors/how injuries can occur

  · Training in how to use mechanical aids e.g. hoist

  · Techniques for safe manual handling

  · Practical work to allow the trainer to identify and put right anything the trainee is not doing safely.

  How Health and Safety is promoted through training and risk- assessing:

  Training and risk assessing manual handling tasks reduces likelihood of injury to employees/individuals receiving care.
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• Records must be kept of::

  · any accident, occupational disease or dangerous occurrence that requires reporting

  · any other occupational accident causing injuries that result in a worker being away from work or incapacitated for more than 7 consecutive days.

  · all accidents where a worker is unable to work for 3 consecutive days

  · an accident book should be used to record:

  · date, time, place of event, details of those involved, a summary of what happened and details of the injury/illness that resulted
• Keeping records enables employers to:

  · collect information to help them properly manage health and safety risks at work

  · use the information as an aid to risk assessment · develop solutions to potential risks

  · help prevent injuries and ill-health

  · help control costs from accidental loss or fines.