1. Responsibilities in the workplace to reduce injury -- 3. Risk identification -- 3. Risk assessment: factors to consider -- 4. Risk control -- 5. Caring for your back -- 6. Injury management -- 7. Client assessment -- 8. Bed mobility -- 9. Assessing and assisting clients to stand, sit and walk -- 10. Transferring a weight-bearing client -- 11. Transferring a partially weight-bearing client -- 12. Manual-handling equipment, transferring a non-weight-bearing client -- 13. Toileting with dignity -- 14. Handling a fall -- Appendixes
Summary
Based on an international background in both education and experience, Kate Tuohy-Main presents a comprehensive manual designed to assist with injury prevention to health care workers and their clients. This systematic holistic approach to client assessment and the manual handling of people is fully illustrated. The contents of this manual will enable employers, supervisors and employees to identify, assess and control the risks involved with the moving and handling of clients intheir care
Notes
1st edition, 1994, published under title: A manual of handling people : a health and safety guide for carers