Why manikins are the solution for safety training in your care home
In a care setting, no one should manually lift patients on a regular basis without the help of a hoist, sliding sheet, sling, or other specialist equipment. But sometimes, it is necessary for someone to manually lift or move a person in their care, when there is no...
Safer Patient Handling Training or Emergency Evacuation Preparedness during the Pandemic
Since the start of the pandemic, we have all had to make countless adjustments to the way we work – whether that be through wearing different PPE, taking regular lateral flow tests or enforcing tighter distancing restrictions within our health and care facilities. But...
Care Home Evacuation Training – Horizontal and Vertical Evacuation and the importance of PEEPs
If you manage a property which houses a large number of residents, many of which have complex needs in terms of their mobility, you will no doubt have considered how best you might evacuate everyone safely in the event of an emergency. PEEPS (Personal Emergency...