Moving and Handling

A legal framework to serve the health, safety and welfare of persons at work, setting out the employers responsibilities. 

• Health and Safety at work act 1974

• Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment (LOLER) 1998

• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998

• NMC code of conduct 2018

Requires lifting equipment to be strong and stable enough for that particular use (includes hoists in hospital). Requires equipment to have maintaince every six months. Must be used by a competent person.

• Health and Saftey at work act 1974

• Lifting Operations and Lifting equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998

• Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) 1998

• Nursing and MIdwifery Council Code of conduct 2018

Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and (a)   Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR 1995)

Mannual Handling is inherently unsafe and should be avoided at all costs

• True

• False

When mobilising a patient from the bed to chair, what is the first thing you must do?

• Gather equipment

• Clean the chair

• Risk assessment

• Do some warm-up laps

Identify the four areas that need to be considered when undertaking an ergonomic risk assessment?

• Load, Assessment, Task, Environment

• Capability, Options, Load, Diagnosis

• Task,Individual, Load, Environment

• Task,Assessment, Capability, Time

Musculo-skeletal disorders (MSDs) are the LEAST common​

cause of occupational ill health in the UK

• True

• False

Moving and handling risk assessment is carried out by:

• Any nurse involved in care

• A physiotherapist

• Any competent member of staff who is familiar with the operation in question

• Only the nurse in charge

If a valid risk assessment reveals that a hoist should be used to move a patient, a competent nurse may decide not to use the hoist if ...

• 3 members of staff are free to execute the move

• The hoist is unavailable and the patient wants to be moved now

• Ordered not to by a senior nurse

• the nurse MUST use the hoist

Completion of a risk assessment guarantees that all risk factors have been adequately identified

• True

• False