Manual handling actually encompasses a range of activities, including lifting, twisting, pushing, pulling, lowering and carrying. The object or load might be a physical item, an animal or a person. Manual handling tasks are completed either by hand or by using bodily force.
Basic Life Support, or BLS, generally refers to the type of care that first-responders, healthcare providers and public safety professionals provide to anyone who is experiencing cardiac arrest, respiratory distress or an obstructed airway.
All Protection of Vulnerable Adults Teams (POVA) work to ensure that all vulnerable adults are protected from abuse and neglect and when a referral is received it may be necessary to take action to keep individuals safe from further actual harm or risk of harm.
Understanding the brain and the signs and symptoms of dementia. Diagnosis and support. Communication. Inclusion and stigma. Prevention and living well with dementia.
Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression is an essential requirement when working within any mental health environment.
The term Health and Safety is generally used to describe Occupational Health and Safety, and relates to the prevention of accidents and ill health to employees and those who may be affected by their work.
Infection control prevents or stops the spread of infections in healthcare settings. This site includes an overview of how infections spread, ways to prevent the spread of infections, and more detailed recommendations by type of healthcare setting.
Food safety refers to routines in the preparation, handling and storage of food meant to prevent foodborne illness and injury. Safe food handling practices and procedures are thus implemented at every stage of the food production life cycle in order to curb these risks and prevent harm to consumers.
Fire safety can be defined as the set of practices to prevent or avert occurrence of fire and manage growth and effects of accidental or intentional fires while keeping resulting losses to an acceptable level.
First aid is emergency care given immediately to an injured person. The purpose of first aid is to minimize injury and future disability. In serious cases, first aid may be necessary to keep the victim alive.
Behaviours that challenge include but are not limited to:
Physical: Injury to themselves or others i.e., head banging, hitting, biting, hair pulling, throwing things, spitting.
Verbal: Offensive language, screaming, shouting, threats, abuse, repetitive speech.
It looks at the roles and responsibilities of individuals for administering, storing and recording information about the use of medicines. It also looks at the legislative requirements, as well as providing guidance on safe administration, storage and disposal of medications and looks at the rights of clients.