13. OUR RESULTS
Slide sheet In situ slide sheet Mechanical slide
sheet
Time for transfer 3 minutes 3 minutes 2 minutes
No of care workers 2 1 1
Deviations from
neutral
9 7 4
Number of steps 16 14 9
Cost of item $50 $360 $10,000
If task completed
10 times per day
30 mins 30 mins 20 mins
CW cost (NDIS) $40 $20 $14
Time for item to
pay for self
18 days
($360/$20 saved
per day)
384 days
($10,000/$26 saved
per day)
17. CONNECTING WITH US
Our Amazon #1 Best Selling Book
THE MANUAL HANDLING
REVOLUTION:
How health professionals can
achieve creative solutions for
people with disabilities and their
care givers
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18. CONNECTING WITH US
HANDLE WITH CARE
EMMA SMALL
How disability organisations
can avoid injuries, increase
surplus and become a
provider of choice
Due for publication late
2018
19. CONNECTING WITH US
STANDING HOIST STUDY WEBINAR
FREE ON OUR WEBSITE
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hoist-study/
20. REFERENCES
• Chhokar, R., Engst, C., Miller, A., Robinson, D., Tate, R.B., Yassi, A., (2005).
The three year economic benefits of a ceiling lift intervention aimed to
reduce healthcare worker injuries. Applied Ergonomics. 36, 223e229.
• Gallagher, A. (2017). The Manual handling Revolution. How health
professionals care achieve creative solutions for people with disabilities
and their care givers. Michael Hanrahan Publishing, Melbourne
21. MEDIA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• Icons (competence, objective assessment, comparison and
creativity) – Copyright Risk Managed
• Care giver and Client – Istock owned by Risk Managed
• Occupational Therapist by Isle of Man
Governmenthttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
• Gem – purchase by Risk Managed from icon finder
Hinweis der Redaktion
Hello my name is Aideen Gallagher and this is my colleague Emma Small.
Today we are going to implement the model of equipment evaluation I talk about in my book, The Manual Handling Revolution. The task we are going to apply it to is rolling on the bed
This is a workshop based presentation so you will be doing in a few minutes. Before we start doing I am going to explain why I think a model like this is a needed and how you might work your way through a model such as this.
We all know that manual handling is a problem in the health and social care area with figures such as 50 health workers everyday get an injury at work here in Australia.
As health professionals, we are the ones that our team look to to be able to solve manual handling problems and a large component of that is the use of equipment.
From our work with health professionals over the last ten years we have found that health professionals lack the knowledge of equipment to the extent they should have.
In the 1980s, a gap existed between manual handling requirements and equipment options available, because there was no real innovation in the industry. Carers of people with disabilities had to do a significant amount of lifting to care for these people. As light was shed on the risk to carers from manual handling, especially the risk of back injury, industry experts put a call out for equipment innovators to develop solutions. By the start of the 21st century, these solutions were being provided by forward-thinking equipment companies. Innovators came to the industry, creating some really clever options to minimise manual handling. While they answered the call in terms of options available, we now have the opposite problem. We have too many options available to us.
Equipment that is not cutting the mustard.
It is crap, it creates further problems
Gold the icing the cake, the yeah I love this
We want to avoid the like/I don’t like equipment. We want to know why?
number of steps in the process
cost of installed items (including maintenance costs)
level of deviation from neutral position of body/ergonomic risk
experience and comfort (for client and care worker)
time taken to complete the procedure
number of care workers required
cost of the procedure
time for the item to pay for itself.
Learning Environment
Learning agreement
This is not about perfection of technique – learning about equipment
Task directions
3 stations:
One with a regular slide sheet
In situ slide sheet
Mechanical slide sheet.
The start of the task – person is lying in bed in the morning
End of the task – sling is under the person in lying on the bed
Station 1
Bed
Two slide sheets
Sling
Station 2
Wendy lett
Bed
Sling
Station 3
Vendt let
Bed
Sling
Time at each station is 15 minutes
Timed
Do the task of fitting the hoist sling
Take the measures
Deviation from neutral spine
Time to do the activity
Number of care workers
$41.36 cost of a care worker under the NDIS
Multiply time x $41.36