Useful Books And Publications

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Publications on legislation

Manual Handling in Health and Social Care. An A-Z of the Law, By Michael Mandelstam

HSE Manual Handling - Guidance of Regulations (Manual Handling Operations Regulations) 3 rd Edition 2004. Available from HMSO or HSE books. Tel: 01787 881165 or www.hsebooks.co.uk

Management of health and safety at work regulations 1999 – Approved Code of practice and Guidance. £8 Available from HMSO or HSE books

Safe use of lifting equipment regulations 1998 (LOLER) – Approved code of practice and guidance. £8 Available from HMSO or HSE books

Safe use of work equipment regulations 1998 (PUWER) – Approved code of practice and guidance. £8 Available from HMSO or HSE books

SIMPLE GUIDE TO THE LOLER (see above) and PUWER REGULATIONS A short leaflet from the HSE. Free for single copies or available to buy in packs on 15 from HSE Books ISBN: 0 7176 2430 7. Available from HMSO or HSE books

Display Screen equipment work – guidance on regulations (Health and safety (display screen equipment) regulations 1992. reprinted 2000. £5.75 Available from HMSO or HSE books

Royal College of Nursing publications & downloads

Code of Practice for Patient Handling. 2002, Royal College of Nursing (Re-order code 000 604) Introducing a Safer patient Handling Policy. 2002, RCN (Re-order code 000 603) Manual Handling Assessments in Hospitals and the Community. 2001, RCN (Re-order code 000 605)

Available FREE from RCN Direct Tel: 0845 772 6100 or downloadable from the RCNOnline web site: www.rcn.org.uk

RCN – Safer Staff, Better care (Code: 001 975) RCN manual handling training guidance and competencies. Available from RCN Direct Tel: 0845 772 6100 or downloadable (for RCN members) from the RCNOnline web site www.rcn.org.uk/members/downloads/saferstaff.pdf

Changing Practice – improving health (Code: 001 255) An RCN leaflet detailing an integrated back injury prevention programme for nursing and care homes. Available from the RCN (see above) or downloadable for RCN members www.rcn.org.uk/members/downloads/changing_practice.pdf

The Guide to the Handling of People (5th Edition) 2004 £40 + £5 P&P

Available from Backcare, 16 Elmtree Rd, Teddington, TW11 8ST. Tel: 0208 977 5474 www.backcare.org.uk

HSE publications

HSE Handling Home Care ISBN: 0-7176-2228-2 £9.50. Available from HSE books

Safer Handling of People in the Community £16.99+ £3.10 P&P. Available from Backcare

HSE Manual Handling Assessment Charts. ISBN: 0 7176 2741 1A Free leaflet for assessing load handling tasks. Available from HSE books or downloadable from their web site

HSE Health and Safety in Care Homes ISBN: 0-7176-2082-4. Available from HSE books

HSE Manual Handling - Solutions you can handle. Available from HSE books

Manual Handling in the Health Services £9.75. ISBN: 0-7176-1248-1. Available from HSE books

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) publications

Guidance in Manual Handling for Chartered Physiotherapists £5. Available from the CSP Tel: 0207 306 6666 or downloadable from the CSP website www.csp.org.uk

Other useful books & publications

Essential Back-Up £5. Recommendations for setting up effective back care/manual handling programmes. (Updated in September 2002). Available from National Back Exchange Tel: 01327 358 855

The Biomechanics of Back Pain ISBN: 0-443-06207-2 £27.99. Available from Russell Medical Tel: 01684 311444

Safe Manual Handling: A Gower Health & Safety Workbook By G Roberts-Phelps £21. Available from Amazon: www.amazon.co.uk

Safer Handling and Moving Techniques (a training handbook) by Y. Dereix & J McManus. £18+ £2.50 P&P. Available from HPSC Tel: 01943 431 999

Paediatric Manual Handling - Guidelines for Paediatric Physiotherapists. Available from Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists

Paediatric Moving and Handling - Report on Workshops. Available from National Back Exchange, Essex Group

Teaching, Training and Learning - a practical guide (4 th Edition) by I Reece & S Walker ISBN: 1 901888 17 7. Available from Business Education Publishers Ltd

Evidence-Based Patient Handling Tasks, equipment and interventions. By S Hignett et al. ISBN: 0-415-24632-6. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

Managing Back Pain and For Your Neck (self help manuals). Available from Saunders (UK) Ltd, Tel: 01323 833 353

Disability, Oppression and Public Policy by Sue Cunningham. ISBN: 0 9538609 0 6 £9.95

Available from Independent Living (Keighley) PO Box 275, Keighley LDO, BD22 9YS

Video

Unsafe Patient Handling Techniques Short informative video. £26.50 for National Back Exchange members, £31.50 non members. Available from Essex Group, National Back Exchange, c/o Pam Watson-Jones, 68 Windermere Ave, Hullbridge, Essex, SS5 6JT. Tel: 01702 232376

Downloadable publications

RCN Manual Handling Training Guidance. 2002 Funded from a research grant by Liko (UK) Ltd. www.rcn.org/professional/publications/manual-handling.rtf

Nursing & Midwifery Council. Practitioner/client relationships and the prevention of abuse www.nmc-uk.org/nmc/main/publications/pcr.pdf

Good practice in Infection Control. A free downloadable leaflet from the RCN: www.rcn.org.uk/publications/pdf/goodpracticeinfectioncontrol.pdf

Resuscitation Council (UK). Guidance for safer handling during resuscitation in hospitals www.resus.org.uk

Computer Workstation Set-up. Nice colourful poster - free to download www.ergonomics.co.uk/training_resources

Understanding Ergonomics at Work. A free HSE leaflet downloadable from the HSE website: www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg90.pdf

Working with VDU's (Visual Display Units – or Computers!). A free HSE leaflet. www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf

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