Moving and Handling People an Illustrated Guide

The third edition of Moving and Handling People An Illustrated Guide is now available at a cost of £35 plus £2.80 p&p.

This fully revised and updated step-by-step guide to best practice remains a must-have for anyone working in health care, social care, education or any other setting where manual handling of people is needed. Retaining all the clarity and details of previous editions of this title, this 155-page book contains more than 50 guidelines organised into nine sections:

• A fully updated and comprehensive Introduction including the latest guidance and legislation, on which the best practice described throughout the book is based.
• A new Equipment section outlining the key equipment described.
• Principles of safe handling and risk assessment.
• Weight-bearing activities and transfers.
• Getting in and out of bed.
• Moving in bed.
• Management of the falling and fallen person.
• Transferring people with hoists.
• Short-term solutions.
• Hazardous handling.

The editors of the third edition are Carol Croshaw, an experienced physiotherapist (recently retired) who has specialised in manual handling and occupational health, and Mike Fray, Senior Lecturer in Ergonomics and Human Factors in Loughborough Design School at Loughborough University. Carol and Mike have been ably assisted by a team of authors: Clair Gibson, Nicola Helen Sharpe, Pamela Sherliker and Lesley Wonnacott. All have master’s degrees in Back Care Management from the University of Loughborough and are members of the Loughborough Alumni Research Forum. All are highly regarded in the specialist field of moving and handling people.