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Moving and Handling People
An Illustrated Guide
This step-by-step guide to best practice is a must-have for anyone working in health care, social care, education or any other setting where manual handling of people is needed.
- An illustrated guide to evidence-based manual handling procedures.
- Principles of safe handling and 24-hour back care.
- Includes both primary care and secondary care settings.
- Advice on hygiene and infection control.
- Dealing with the falling and fallen person.
- Principles of using sling hoists.
- Hazardous techniques and why they should not be used.
- Safe moving of babies and toddlers.
“An invaluable source for all those working in health and social care…The instructions are clear and the illustrations excellent. As an adjunct to training in the practical strategies of moving and handling people, this book is unequalled in its field.”
Pat Alexander MSc PGDip PGCE MCSP CMIOSHConsultant Back Care Advisor, Registered Member of National Back Exchange and expert witness in lifting injuries for the Health and Safety Executive
“This book, in my opinion, offers an exceptional supplement to the training received. Its combination of clear, pictorial guidance and easy-to-follow instructions will help all staff involved in the handling of people and loads to keep themselves up to date with current practice.”
Mike Betts MSc RGN NEBOSHManual Handling Consultant and Chairman of National Back Exchange
About the Editor
Sue Ruszala, MSc, PGCE, MCSP, DipTP, SRP, Manual Handling Consultant
Sue is an independent manual handling consultant in health and social care with more than 25 years’ experience in policy development, risk management, training strategies, accident investigation and equipment evaluation. She has contributed to several national working groups who have developed manual handling guidance, including Manual Handling in the Health Services for the Health and Safety Commission (1998) and Guidance on Manual Handling for Chartered Physiotherapists (Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, 2002), and she has been a member of the Royal College of Nursing Advisory Panel on Back Pain in Nurses. She is co-author of Standards in Manual Handling (National Back Exchange, 2010), The Guide to the Handling of People (BackCare, 2005), The Guide to the Handling of Patients (National Back Pain Association, 1997) and Evidence-Based Patient Handling (Routledge, 2003). Sue is a Registered Member of the National Back Exchange (NBE) and currently chairs her local NBE group.