Online course
Healthcare safety: moving people, sharps and infection
The risks that matter most in hospitals, care homes and community care: moving and handling people safely, preventing sharps injuries and infection, and protecting staff from violence and fatigue.
- 3units
- 9lessons
- 2 hoursto complete
- 3 yearssuggested refresher
Included with every paid plan, from £79 a year.
What the course covers
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Moving and handling people
Assessing people-handling tasks, using hoists and other equipment, and helping someone who has fallen.
- Assessing people-handling tasks
- Hoists, slings and other equipment
- When someone has fallen
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Sharps and infection control
Preventing and responding to sharps injuries, standard infection control precautions, and handling clinical waste.
- Preventing sharps injuries
- Standard infection control precautions
- Clinical waste and laundry
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Protecting staff
Violence and aggression, lone community work, fatigue and shift work, and a worked example.
- Violence and aggression
- Community work, fatigue and shifts
- Worked example: a residential care home
Assessment and certificate
- A short quiz after each unit, with the reason for every answer.
- A final assessment of 15 questions; the pass mark is 70%.
- Pass it on a paid plan for a certificate of completion with a QR code anyone can check.
This is online awareness training, not an accredited qualification. It doesn't on its own show someone is competent for a task. Awareness course: hands-on training on the handling equipment you use, and your employer's own infection control training, are also needed.