safe work practice
Educating the workforce to perform tasks safely
Our Services
Hazardous Manual Tasks Training
‘Hazardous Manual Tasks Training’, formally known as ‘manual handling training’ is our specialty!
Job Dictionary
A ‘job dictionary’ is a collection of the physical demands of jobs within your organisation aimed at reducing the physical risks to workers.
Train The Trainer Programs
Our ‘train the trainer’ programs offer an additional level of training to larger organisations that wish to train their staff internally.
Ergonomic Workstation Assessments
We offer a variety of services to assist you with maintaining a healthy posture in your working environment.
Online Education
We have adapted to an online based learning model for those unable to host or attend face to face training due to COVID restrictions.
About US
Together with current clinical director by Lisa Harman (physiotherapist), Safe Work Practice’s team of highly experienced physiotherapists and occupational therapists offer a specialised range of Occupational Health Services with a strong client-centred approach.
"WHS" and requirements of a PCBU:
Did you know that there is legislating mandating that a Person Conducting Business or Undertakings must:
✅ensure the health and safety of workers and others at your workplace
✅consult with workers who carry out work for the business or undertaking and who are (or are likely to be) directly affected by a health and safety matter, and
✅consult cooperate and coordinate activities with all other relevant duty holders.
Depending on your workplace, this legislation requires your to identify, risk assess and risk manage foreseeable risk within the workplace.
Safe Work Practice has a robust job dictionary aimed at health workers and providing them clear Safe Operating Instructions for job roles ranging from acute care to residential and community care. These can be tailored to your specific workplace should you wish to create a job dictionary for your workplace without 'reinventing the wheel'.
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Scope of a physiotherapist.... this is a question we are often asked as the scope of a physiotherapist can be quite broad!
In our team, we are extremely grateful to have 7 highly experienced physiotherapists that enable our team to have a wide scope of experience.
So what can our physiotherapy team do?
✅ Manual Handling Plans
✅ Manual Handling Training
✅ Functional Capacity Assessments - for individuals with physical disabilities
✅ Equipment/ AT assessment and prescription (including complex wheelchair and sleep system scripting)
✅ Therapy - we offer land based clinic and home therapy, we offer hydrotherapy and we also have a one of a kind ceiling hoist to enable our physiotherapists with a near background to offload different weights in a hoist lifter WHILST the user is weight bearing!!! This isn't something that can be done in any ceiling hoist with any sling!
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Manual Handling Plans - what are they and why are they beneficial?🙋♀️
"A 'Manual Handling Plan' is a set of instructions and descriptions that provide the wishes and the needs of a person that requires physical support to move their body".
➡ A Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist will conduct an 'in home' manual handling assessment, looking at how the person moves and what physical support they require to complete the task.
➡ A manual handling plan will look at everything from how to move between a bed and a chair, to how the person mobilises, positioning to eat/drink (if applicable), how the person accesses the community and how they engage in tasks of interest.
✅ A great manual handling plan will always have the individual at the centre of mind and consult with them and their family/ supports to ensure that the person's wishes are directing the assessment
✅ A great manual handling plan details specific step by step instructions on how to support the individual with the task. This includes but is not limited to what equipment is required and how to use it, preferences for seated and lying postures and when and how support is needed.
✅ A great manual handling plan will have pictures (with consent) showing the steps required to support the individual
✅ The scope of the manual handling plan should always align with the manual handling training that is offered to support the individual's needs.
Our team have been teaching manual handling training and writing manual handling plans for more than 20 years. We have a solid understanding of risk management and how to work with the individual and abide by the legislative requirements to create a plan that maintains independence and choice for the individual, whilst meeting WHS requirements. ... See MoreSee Less
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