Manual Handling — Aged Care.

No. This is an awareness course — practical, RTO-authored online training that issues a certificate of completion. It is not a nationally recognised unit of competency.

~75 min · online. Delivery: online, self-paced. Start, pause, and finish whenever suits.

No — it's a policy the industry adopted from 1998, and the course tells that story. The law is the duty under the Work Health and Safety Act to eliminate the risk so far as reasonably practicable, or minimise it, and the Code of Practice's hierarchy of control points straight at the hoist. The Queensland people-handling code calls a manual lift of a person a last resort for emergencies. The policy is how the industry complies with the law.

There is no legal weight limit in Australian WHS law, and a person is not a carton: they move, grab, resist and go limp. Sudden force is a risk factor on its own at any weight. The course teaches the five risk factors that actually decide it, and why the care plan names the aid — not the scales.

Everyone who moves a person or a thing in a facility or a client's home — personal care workers and nurses first, then the kitchen, laundry, cleaning, maintenance and lifestyle staff every other manual handling course forgets, and home care workers working solo with the client's own furniture. Managers and clinical leads get the duties, consultation and Quality Standards content from their side of the desk, and the end-of-course action card is written to land on it.

About 75 minutes, on your phone or a laptop. Twenty-three short bites across four modules with a quick knowledge check in each, a task-sorting interactive, a posture dial you can set to real care-floor jobs, a 'fix the task' hierarchy exercise, one short Safe Work Australia clip, an 'apply what you know' chat at the end of every module, and one spoken scenario where you talk a senior carer into putting the bed up and waiting for the slide sheets — a headset helps but the phone mic is fine. You finish by naming your own two hardest tasks, which builds a one-page action card for whoever runs safety at your facility.

It covers the law, the five risk factors and the categories of gear most facilities have — it can't know which room has the ceiling hoist or what a particular resident's care plan says. The provider stays responsible for training workers on the specific hazardous manual tasks, people-handling procedures and equipment in its own facilities and home care services, which is exactly what the end-of-course action card is for. If you want the course rebuilt around your own facility, that's a tailored course — talk to us.

The strengthened Quality Standards ask providers for a skilled, competent workforce and a training system that responds to incidents and identified risks (Outcome 2.9). This course is general awareness training and evidences general instruction under the WHS Act — one part of that system, not all of it. The course says so plainly, and the action card tells the provider what's still owed on their own tasks.

Yes — we deliver to teams of any size at your site, on your schedule. See in-house training →