Health and Safety with Manual Handling

Alongside the paramount duty of care to patients in healthcare, your practice also has legally regulated duties to provide safe working conditions for your team. Health and safety with manual handling training from Rosette CPD will help to meet your legal and regulatory requirements and support you and your team in working safely.

Good health and safety procedures make your practice a safer place to work. Manual handling training gives good, transferable skills to your employees. Dental work is physically demanding: the most common reason for early retirement for health reasons among dentists found in research from 2010 was musculoskeletal disorders (MSD).

In healthcare settings where staff may need to provide physical help to patients and to operate equipment around vulnerable people, good health and following safety practices, help protect patients.

Rosette CPD delivers comprehensively-researched, up-to-date training courses in a wide range of specialist dental and healthcare subjects. These courses deliver all the information you need to meet legal and regulatory requirements, and give you and your team practical advice for real-life situations.

Rosette CPD’s courses deliver in-house training to your specifications. Presented by Maggie Heath, a specialist healthcare CPD trainer with more than 10 years’ experience of delivering continuing professional development (CPD) training to dental and healthcare professionals, they are engaging, useful and hands-on.

Health and Safety with Manual Handling: Your Duties and the Law

As well as specialist regulation for healthcare and dental practices, health and safety in a medical practice is governed by the same legislation that covers all workplaces.

The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act of 1974 sets a general duty for employers to “ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of all his employees.”

Further legislation adds duties to make a risk assessment (The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999: Regulation 3); a duty that applies to risks to both employees and anyone who may be affected by your work.

Manual handling is covered specifically by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, as amended in 2002 (‘the Regulations’), which puts duties on employers to protect employees from injury a work.

Please ask about the full suite of Rosette CPD training courses that cover Infection Control and Prevention, Legionella and Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, CPR and Medical Emergencies, and Fire Safety.

Rosette CPD Health and Safety with Manual Handling Course

All in-house training courses from Rosette CPD are delivered to your requirements by an experienced, specialist healthcare CPD trainer and are certificated, reportable, verified CPD training that can be reported towards the General Dental Council’s CPD goals.

The Health and Safety with Manual Handling course includes:

The health and safety and risk assessment requirements for dental practices.

Advice on of Manual Handling regulations.

Reviewing both employers’ and employees’ legal responsibilities.

The mechanics of the spine and what MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders) are.

A survey of possible ergonomic issues in a dental practice.

After the course you will:

Be able to report 2 hours of verifiable, certificated training towards GDC CPD requirements.

Have a team who can handle all the physical tasks of their roles safely and with confidence.

Give your patients, visitors, and staff a safe environment.

Reduce your risk of personal injury at work.

Be able to show certificated course completions to your patients, demonstrating your commitment to providing them with a safe environment.

Health and Safety and Compliance

Health and safety risk assessments are a part of your dental practice’s compliance requirements and will be looked for in Care Quality Commission (in Wales, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales) inspections. Maggie Heath is a specialist healthcare compliance consultant and can help your practice meet all your health and safety compliance duties with full inspection preparation or more informal advice.

Meet Your Training Needs Today

Rosette CPD runs a comprehensive programme of specialist dental and healthcare training courses, delivered in-house to the requirements of your team, your practice, and your personal goals. Call Maggie today on 07791 990297 to discuss your dental practice's CPD needs and to start designing a training programme to suit your team. Visit our contact page to send an email.