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.
Exciting decision! Installation of a gait training hoist!
Lisa our Director visited Melbourne recently and had the pleasure of trialling the Guldmann GH3 hoist. Unlike other ceiling hoists, it SENSES when a person needs to go up/ down/ forwards/ sidewards as it is designed for walking and gait training.
Lisa was blown away and has purchased one for our neuro-gym in Mawson Lakes. We will be sending out plenty of updates, but the opportunities for the community this could create is beyond amazing! Imagine being able to have the opportunity to stand or walk on land, outside that of a hydrotherapy pool!
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Mental Health - It is becoming more important in these challenging times of financial pressure and especially working with/ supporting/ being an individual who has a disability.
This year we have dedicated to implementing some wellness strategies in our practice (most commencing August 2024), to try and provide more flexibility for challenging days/ to check in with ones self/ to implement some strategies on work time to declutter the mind and reset.
So far we have:
🌟 workers who roster themselves around their life, rather than the other way around
🌟 option to work from home or our office
🌟 a kitchen stocked full of goodies for our staff to enjoy (and some to share with those who come into our space)
🌟 "no questions asked" personal days that do not require a sick certificate
🌟 Senior team oversight (debriefing/ mentoring)
From August we will be introducing paid options of weekly:
💓 yoga
💓 breath work
💓 mindfulness
💓 ice baths (yes you read that correctly!)
💓 sound baths
💓 we won't give the last one away to our staff but it results in those good belly laughs!
It is so important to look after your mental wellness, watch this space for some more tips that we would love to share with you all and how our practice is supporting our staff to offset the risk of industrial burnout, compassion fatigue and sometimes just life.
NB: Some pictures are of the director Lisa learning these techniques on wellness retreats, photos shared with consent.
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And that's a wrap! 🎥
We have successfully finished filming some manual handling training SOP's for a corporate client on how to safely load, unload and restrain a wheelchair in an accessible vehicle, including how to use the manual over ride functions.
This space can be tricky to navigate and unfortunately we see so many people in our community restrained incorrectly. What is even more worrying, on this adventure we discovered that a roadworthy certificate is not required in SA as it is in other states to ensure the vehicle is compliant with the road safety legislation 😳 (although many get it voluntarily).
Some of the main points to remember:
✅ restraints should be as parallel as possible between the wheelchair tie down point and the vehicle floor restraint
✅ restraints should be 45 degrees from floor level once that are attached to the tie down point on the chair
✅ NEVER cross restraints
✅ Always travel in a crash tested wheelchair with it's original tie downs and travel with a head rest
✅ You are required to wear a seatbelt under the road safety laws, even if you have a lap support and/pr postural support
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