Moving and Handling Education
All Moving and Handling training courses are available for booking on eEES.
Use link to access course information and dates Moving and Handling Training – NHSGGC
NHSGGC Policy and Staff Return to Work Assessment
Moving and Handling Policy 2024
Line Manager request form for manual handling assessment of a staff member returning to work following a period of absence.
Clinical Handling Competency Assessment
Clinical Handling Competency Assessment within NHSGGC
All Induction (Foundation) courses remain the same, however, rather than providing refresher training for everybody irrespective of need, a process of assessment is used to identify where additional support may be required.
An overview of the approach and how it relates to the Acute Services and for Partnerships is provided.
Clinical Handling Competency Assessment Documentation
- Competency assessors – information pack
- Competency assessment – criteria / record form
- Competency assessment – tracker form
- Competency Assessors online recording link (for reporting assessments)
- Self Assessment form – general / podiatry
- Post assessment information sheets:
Inanimate Load Handling Competency Assessment
Inanimate Load Handling Competency Assessment within NHSGGC
Competency assessments for staff that regularly move and handle inanimate loads as part of work tasks.
Competency Assessment Documentation
- Assessment Criteria / Record form / Self assessment form / Tracker Form / HSE Load Handling Guidance
Competency Assessors online recording link Not for clinical handling assessments. This link is for staff who carry out load handling and are not part of the Facilities Directorate e.g. housekeepers. Facilities Training and Education managers can input information directly into eESS from the tracker
Bariatric Guidance and Equipment
Guidance
NHSGGC Moving and Handling Bariatric Guidelines contain guidance related to moving and handling plus sized (bariatric) patients.
Bariatric beds
The bariatric beds on the Clinical Therapy Bed Contract, including advice on which one to order and ordering instructions are in the resource folder. In addition to the bariatric beds, other specialist beds are also available on this contract, including low level beds and spinal beds
Arjo rental phone number to order bariatric or low-level beds 08457 342000.
User guides for the bariatric and low level beds on the contract
User guides for the bariatric mattresses for use with Citadel or Baros bed
Rental Information for other bariatric equipment e.g chairs
Please forward request to procurement for purchase order number prior to contacting company.
Equipment
Moving and Handling Equipment Register
Please complete this register for all moving and handling aids kept within wards and departments.
Hoist service and LOLER inspection schedules
NHSGGC’s patient hoists and standing aids are currently serviced every six months by contractors Drive DeVilbiss. When you go to use the hoist or standing aid, as well as your normal pre-use checks, if it does not have an up to date service sticker attached to it, please report this to your local Estates department.
NHSGGC’s patient hoists, standing aids and fabric slings are inspected as per the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) every six months. Currently the inspections are undertaken by Allianz. When you go to use the hoist, standing aid, as well as your normal pre – use checks if it does not have an up to date inspection sticker attached to it, please take the equipment out of use and report this to your local Estates department.
Bed Maintenance Programme
NHSGGC’s patient beds are serviced annually and is currently undertaken by Drive DeVilbiss. When the bed has been serviced a label will be placed on the bed frame at the brake end.
Guidance on reporting faults to electric beds can be found here.
Equipment Information
Hoist Sling Safety Action Notice 2024
- Arjo Maxi Sky (Poster)
- LIKO Liftpants
- LIKO Ultra Liftpants
- Arjo Enterprise 5000X
- Arjo Enterprise 8000X
- Hill-Rom HR900
- Sidhill Innov8 Low Bed.
Bedrails
Floor Recovery
Videos
PECOS Ordering – Slings and Sliding Sheets
Guidance Documents and Links
Health and Safety Executive (HSE)
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR)
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Upper Limb Disorders in the Workplace (2002)
- How LOLER Applies to Healthcare (2012)
- Getting to Grips with Hoisting People (2011).
NHS Scotland
Professional Bodies
- Chartered Society of Physiotherapists – Guidance on Manual Handling (2008)
- College of Occupational Therapists – Manual Handling Guidance 3 (2006)
NHSGGC Guidance Documentation
Assisting with:
- Mobilisation
- Seated to standing transfer
- Repositioning in bed using sliding sheets
- Supine lateral transfer – Rigid transfer board and sliding sheets
- Supine lateral transfer – HoverMatt
- Hoisting
- Recovering a person from the floor with minimal assistance or a hoist
- Management of the fallen patient in mental health
- Low level working with fixed height beds
- Limb preparation using bag disinfectant technique Article 1 / Article 2 / Video available on request
- Guidance for midwives
Safety Briefing Notes – NHSGGC
These Notes are developed in response to incidents that have occurred or hazards that have been identified. They are designed to be used by Local Managers to communicate key safety messages to their staff, taking no more than two minutes. They can be presented in a number of ways including at handovers, safety briefings and staff meetings. Not all Notes will be relevant to all areas.
- Bed and Trolley Safety Side Rails
- Arjo Maximove (old version – white and green)
- Mobile moving shelving units
- Arjo battery chargers
- The falling person
- Arjo slings with grey clips
- Hoists catching on beds
- Potential for Bed to tip
Course Handouts – NHSGGC
Moving and Handling Overview Video
Risk Assessment
The risk assessments are generic in that they will apply to a number of areas within NHSGGC. You can download them to be included in your ward / departments Health and Safety Management Manual. If you do so however, you must ensure that you have altered the generic principles of the risk assessment to your own specific area, for example, you may have to take into account specifc risks associated with the environment you work in or the equipment you have access to.
Blank moving and handling risk assessment forms are available from the Health & Safety Risk Assessment Page
- Generic Inpatient M&H Risk assessment exemplar – Acute
- Generic Inpatient M&H Risk assessment exemplar – Partnerships
- Person Specific – Intervention Plan (Bariatric)
- Maternity – Assisting post natal mothers to breastfeed
- Maternity – Assisting a woman to deliver (on a bed)
- Maternity – Assisting a woman to deliver (on the floor)
- Equipment – Arjo Alenti and Ambulift bathing hoists
- Equipment – Hoist and sling compatibility
- Facilities – Collection & Disposal of Waste
- Load – Moving waste from wards / departments
Musculoskeletal Disorder Guidance
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are problems affecting the muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves or other soft tissues and joints. The back, neck and upper limbs are particularly at risk. The aims of the NHSGGC Guidance for Managing Musculoskeletal Disorders are to:
- Inform all staff of the systems in place for the prevention and treatment of MSDs
- Provide guidance to Line Managers to support employees with MSDs
- Facilitate the identification of MSD risks through the Risk Assessment (RA) process
Information relating to treating minor musculoskeletal conditions can be found at www.nhsinform.co.uk/injuries/muscle-bone.