Manual Handling in Health and Social Care, Second Edition : An a-Z of Law and Practice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mandelstam, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lifting and carrying--Safety regulations--Great Britain.

Lifting and carrying.

Lifting and carrying--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

This book lays out the current legal requirements of manual handling in a non-technical way and includes case studies illustrating the law applied in practice, across health, social care and educational settings. The main part of the book is an A-Z guide, providing quick access to legislation and common law rules applying to personal injury cases.

Contents:

Intro

Manual Handling in Health and Social Care

Cover

Of related interest

Title page

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Disclaimer

Contents

Note on terminology

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Background and overview

3. Manual handling: Changing times, changing law

4. Legal framework for manual handling across the United Kingdom

5. A-Z list

A.

Adult protection, see Safeguarding adults

Agency workers, see Employees

Anderson case, see Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992

Assault and battery

Assistive handling

B.

Balanced decision-making

Banned lifts, see Controversial lifts

Bariatric people

Blaming employees for injury

Blanket policies about manual handling

Brexit

Burden of proof and evidence

C.

Capability

Care Act 2014

Care agencies, see Health and care providers

Care homes, see Health and care providers

Care Quality Commission

Carers

Causation of injury

Child protection, see Safeguarding children

Children and Families Act 2014, see Schools

Colclough v Staffordshire case, see Instructions and information

Commissioning and contracting

Common law

Common sense in manual handling

Commons v Queen's Medical Centre case, see Cumulative strain

Compensation for personal injury, see Damages

Competency, see Capability

Contracting for care, see Commissioning and contracting

Contributory negligence, see Negligence

Controversial lifts

Cooperation and coordination in a shared workplace, see Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Coronavirus

Cost-effectiveness, see Resources

COVID-19, see Coronavirus

Creep factor

Cumulative strain

Custom and practice

D.

Damages

Defective equipment

Degrading treatment, see Human rights

Deregulation Act 2015, see Self-employed people.

Dignity

Direct payments

Disabled facilities grants, see Home adaptations

Discrimination

Documentation, see Recording

Double-handed care

E.

East Sussex case, see Human rights

East Sussex ombudsman case, see Maintenance of mobility and other functions

Education, see Children and Families Act 2014

Education, health and care plans, see Children and Families Act 2014

Egan case, see Reasonable practicability

Eggshell skull principle, see Causation of injury

Emergency situations

Employees

Employers

Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, see Regulatory reform

Equality Act 2010, see Discrimination

Equipment

European Convention on Human Rights, see Human rights

European directive on manual handling, see Brexit

Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992

Everyday tasks

Evidence, see Recording

F.

Factories Act 1961

Falling people

Fettering of discretion, see Blanket policies about manual handling

Foreseeability of risk

Foster carers

Fundamental standards

G.

Good practice and law

Guidance

H.

Health and care providers

Health and Safety at Work Act 1974

Health and safety at work legislation

Health and Safety Executive

Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, see Fundamental standards

Health care needs

Health Service Ombudsman

Heavy people, see Bariatric people

Hoists, see Equipment

Home adaptations

Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, see Home adaptations

Human rights

I.

Ill treatment, see Wilful neglect and ill treatment

Illegal lifts, see Controversial lifts

Individual capability, see Capability

Informal carers, see Carers

Information, see Instructions and information

Injury from manual handling: consequences

Instructions and information

J.

Judicial review

K.

Killigrew case, see Needs of those being handled

King v Sussex Ambulance Service case, see Reasonable practicability

Knott v Newham case, see Custom and practice

Koonjul case, see Foreseeability of risk

L.

Legal remedies

Lewisham case, see Reduced carer handling

Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998

Limitation of legal actions, see Time limits for legal action

Loads

Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman

M.

Maintenance of mobility and other functions

Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999

Manslaughter

McDonald case, see Dignity

Mechanisation

Mental Capacity Act 2005

N.

National Health Service legislation, see Health care needs

Needs of those being handled

Negligence

NHS continuing healthcare and manual handling

No-lifting policies

Northern Ireland

Nurses

O.

Occupational therapists

P.

Physiotherapists

Pre-existing musculoskeletal condition

Preferences

Private life, see Human rights

Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998

Public services ombudsmen

R.

Reasonable practicability

Reasonableness

Reasonableness and reasonable practicability compared

Recording

Redbridge case, see Carers

Reduced carer handling

Refusal of care, see Withdrawing or restricting care

Regulatory reform

Rehabilitation

Resources

Restraint

Risk

Risk assessment

Robotics

Rough handling

S.

Safe systems of work, see Systems of work

Safeguarding adults

Safeguarding children

Salford case, see Recording

Scotland

Schools

Self-employed people

Senior mind

Single-handed care, see Reduced carer handling

Social care needs

Social workers

Staffing levels.

Stainton case, see Assistive handling

Students

Supervision

Systems of work

T.

Therapeutic handling, see Maintenance of mobility and other functions

Time limits for legal action

Training

U.

Under-staffing, see Staffing levels

V.

Video evidence

W.

Wales

Welfare legislation, see Health care needs

Well-being, see Care Act 2014

Wilful neglect and ill treatment

Williams v Gwent Health Authority, see Custom and practice

Wishes and wants, see Preferences

Withdrawing or restricting care.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-85700-990-7

OCLC:

1247717993