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1. if you are a care assistant when might you do each of the following things while assisting or moving a client . lift, put down, push, pull, carry.

2. what factors may make assisting and moving individuals more risky than moving inanimate objects.

3.what are 3 ways of moving a load which would be covered by the manual handling operations regulations 1992.

4. according to MHOR what should your employer do before assessing a hazardous manual handling tasks.

5. if you had an accident while carrying out a manual handling task how would you report it.

6. if you where off work for a month as a result of your manual handling accident what must your employer do

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

What are your thoughts? This is obviously homework so would be nice to see some responses from you.

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What are your thoughts? This is obviously homework so would be nice to see some responses from you.

its not home work i am training to become a carer and these questions are in a work book of mine and i have been racking my brain for ages trying to answers the question and am getting no where so i thought i would get peoples opinions

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Specializes in Medical and general practice now LTC.

Even then you must have a few ideas? If you post a few thoughts you may get members pointing you in directions

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i honestly dont have any ideas thats why i asked on hear i only started my care training 4 weeks ago before then i was a sales assistant so this is all new to me and i have been looking on different sites trying to get information but nothing seems to be exactly what i am after or anything close to what i need to no

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1) Care assistants can do all of the things you mentioned. They may assist with transfers, dressing, per-care, eating, bathing depending on what your patient requires.

2) The unpredictability of some of your residents can put you at risk for injury. For example, you are transferring Mrs. Jones who normally is great with transfers but she all of a sudden starts to be resistive and combative. Putting you and her at risk for injury with transfers.

3) you need to look at the regulation for the answers for that

4) Policies and procedures for transfers, lifting, moving objects. We also offer a lifting class for all new employees, students and volunteers. Again read the regulation.

5) Report it to your supervisor so they can assess the injury. It could be nothing more that a sprain or strain or could be more serious. You also want to fill out an employee incident report.

6) If you have a MD note releasing you from work for a month, your employee will keep your position or a position open for you. I believe workers comp pays your wages but I'm not certain on that aspect.

I imagine you have other study materials some of the answers might be in those as well.

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