COVID-19 Risk Assessment In this blog I consider what precautions are required for a Moving and Handling Trainer providing training to Clients and whether a Risk Assessment for COVID-19 is necessary? To answer this question you have to first understand what a Risk Assessment is: “Risk assessment is a term used to describe the overall …
COVID-19 Outbreak Some of you may have heard of a COVID-19 outbreak last month at a hospital in North West London. The outbreak resulted in the closure of the A&E unit as 70 staff were quarantined. An investigation has revealed that a nurse who had the virus inadvertently infected some 16 others during a training …
Manual Handling – Top Tips I have now been a Manual Handling Consultant for 7 years working in the Health & Care Industry; training Nurses, Health Care Assistants & Therapists on safer Patient Handling. Also training Council staff on Inanimate Load Handling and find that there are still some gaps in employee training. I highlight …