Local Patient Handling Training

You are. This page is the official home of the local patient handling training at Irish Health and Safety. The local patient handling training happens 100% online, carries CPD certification and delivers your verifiable certificate the second you pass.

Learners complete this local patient handling training with us in their thousands, and employers accept every certificate on sight.

Absolutely, and without hesitation. CPD Certification, RoSPA approval and full HSA alignment stand behind the patient handling training course, precisely what employers in Ireland look for. from healthcare, hospitality and logistics to construction, pharma and agriculture, local businesses welcome our certification day after day.

A unique verification code sits on every patient handling certificate, letting any employer, inspector or insurer confirm it within seconds. It is the identical accredited certificate relied on throughout Ireland, the UK and Europe.

None at all. Being 100% online, the patient handling training course involves no classroom booking, no journeys across Ireland and no waiting on course dates. The patient handling training opens the second you enrol, whether you live in Dublin, Cork, Galway or anywhere else in every county across Ireland.

Learn at your own speed on any phone, tablet or computer, clear the online assessment and download your patient handling certificate straight away. From start to finish, most learners need about 1-2 hours.

For Irish health and social care, the Patient Handling Training Course is the complete online moving and handling of people course. One course carries the principles of assisting and moving people, the duties Irish law sets for employers and employees, person centred risk assessments, safe practice grounded in communication and ergonomics, the full equipment toolkit from electric profiling beds and hoists through slide sheets and handling belts, and the handling techniques themselves, covering everything the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 and the General Application Regulations 2007 require wherever people are moved.

Expect roughly 1-2 hours on any device, closing with a short assessment that carries unlimited free retakes. The second you pass, your patient handling certificate is ready to download: CPD Certified, RoSPA approved and accepted by care providers, inspectors and insurers across Ireland.

The full journey runs across five modules. The opening module presents the principles of assisting and moving people, who carries which responsibility, the legislation and guidelines behind people handling and the support that makes good practice achievable. Module two covers risk management: the workings of risk assessments, skeletal fragility, the factors that make moving and handling dangerous, the controls that shrink them and the injuries poor practice leaves behind.

Everything after that is practical: safe practice built on communication, the ergonomic approach and human movement patterns, with dignity and independence promoted throughout; a dedicated equipment module covering electric profiling beds, bed rails, hoists and slings, slide sheets, wheelchairs, turning aids, commodes, shower chairs, bath seats, handling belts and transfer boards; and a closing module on techniques, spanning assisted sitting, standing and walking, rolling in bed, repositioning with slide sheets, responding when a service user falls, dressing and getting into a vehicle. Pass the assessment and the patient handling certificate is yours at once.

You face 15 multiple choice questions in the final assessment, each with three possible answers. A pass requires 12 correct answers out of 15, meaning a 75% pass mark.

No clock runs during the test, and unlimited free retakes mean an unlucky first attempt costs nothing. The instant you pass, the patient handling certificate is generated.

In effect, yes. Every Irish employer must supply the information, instruction, training and supervision staff need to work safely under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005, and when the load is a person, Chapter 4 of Part 2 of the General Application Regulations 2007 applies those manual handling duties in full. Moving and handling people sits among the leading causes of injury in Irish healthcare according to the HSA, and HIQA expects registered care settings to demonstrate that staff are trained for it.

The recognised evidence of that training is an accredited patient handling course like this one. A unique verification code sits on each certificate, letting inspectors, auditors and insurers confirm it online within seconds.

Everyone whose role touches patient handling activities in health or social care, whether in a care home, nursing home, hospice, day centre, primary care centre or home care service: care assistants, healthcare assistants, nurses, home carers, paid, unpaid and voluntary staff alike, plus the owners, managers and supervisors accountable for them.

The course is a full introduction to moving and handling people, so nothing needs studying beforehand, and many providers make it induction training for each new starter. Should your role also involve lifting boxes, equipment or other inanimate loads, our Manual Handling Course handles that side, and holding both certificates covers every handling duty in care.

About 1-2 hours of concentrated study finishes the patient handling training online. It is entirely self paced, so shifts and breaks work fine, and progress stores itself automatically on every device.

The moment you pass, your patient handling certificate is created, ready to download, print or email. No classroom day, no travel and no waiting list.

It runs for 3 years from your pass date, matching refresher best practice throughout Irish healthcare. The expiry date sits on the patient handling certificate itself.

Renewing means logging in again, finishing the refreshed course and downloading the new certificate that same day. Approaching expiry dates are flagged by the Employer Dashboard before anyone on the team goes out of date.

Thoroughly. A full module is devoted to the equipment used to move and assist people: the preparatory checks that come before any use, electric profiling beds and bed rails, mobile and ceiling hoists with their slings, slide sheets, wheelchairs, turning aids, commodes, shower chairs, bath seats, handling belts and transfer boards, explaining what each does and how it is used properly.

The equipment then goes to work in the techniques module: repositioning with slide sheets, transfers assisted by handling belts and transfer boards, and safe hoisting. Your own workplace should still demonstrate the exact models on site, which is precisely the approach the HSA recommends.

Boxes, tools and equipment belong to manual handling; human beings belong to patient handling, also called people handling or moving and handling of people. People carry considerations no box ever will: communication, consent, dignity, shifting medical conditions, unpredictable movement and specialist equipment such as hoists and slide sheets.

Irish care employers frequently require both certificates: this patient handling course covering the moving of people and the Manual Handling Course covering loads. This platform offers both, fully online with instant certificates, and combining them triggers automatic volume discounts.

Precisely the figure on this page, without a cent added. One payment buys the complete patient handling training, unlimited assessment retakes and the instant patient handling certificate.

Combining courses unlocks automatic savings: 15% off any 3 different courses, 10% off 10+ courses, 20% off 50+, and the flagship offer of any 5 different courses for €100. It sits naturally beside Manual Handling and Emergency First Aid.

Certainly. Any smartphone, tablet or computer handles the patient handling training online flawlessly, and progress travels between devices on its own.

The platform never closes, so the patient handling course wraps around night shifts, split rosters and home care rounds. Whenever you need a hand, friendly Irish support is a single message away.

Of course. Use the free Employer Dashboard to register staff in bulk, assign the patient handling course to each person, watch live progress and gather every certificate on one clean screen, exactly what an HSA or HIQA inspector expects to see on the day.

Checkout applies discounts by itself: 15% off 3+ mixed courses, 10% off 10+, 20% off 50+, and any 5 different courses for €100. Care homes, nursing homes, hospices and home care agencies throughout Ireland certify their teams this way.