Manual Handling Competence Assessment

Use this manual handling competence assessment to evaluate and document staff capability in safe patient handling across healthcare environments. Topics include safer handling principles, risk assessment, unsafe practices, and managing a falling service-user. Practical skills cover moving clients in chairs, bed mobility, transfers, raising a fallen service-user, and fitting/removing sliding sheets. Hoist and standaid sections address selection and use of hoists and slings, key points from LOLER 1998, and practical hoisting from seated and lying positions. The template includes trainer and trainee sign-offs and competency confirmation to support compliance, training records, and safer care.