Protect Your Staff

Lifting and transferring patients within a care setting is one of the UK's leading causes of workplace injury. The day to day patient handling tasks that care professionals are relied upon to perform can often lead to serious and irreversible damage to their back, neck and shoulders.

Regular surveys carried out in America by the Bureau of Labor Statistics find that the incident rates of back related injuries involving days away from work is higher in Nursing and Residential Care Facilities than in industries traditionally considered high risk such as construction and agriculture.

As any Care Home Manager or Owner will be aware, injuries involving days off work are a considerable drain on resources. In addition to causing troublesome staff shortages, these injuries can also sometimes result in costly compensation payouts.

Technology within this sector has advanced greatly in the past decade and there is now a wide range of products and equipment available to assist care professionals in their daily manual handling tasks, significantly reducing the risk of either the carer of patient sustaining an injury.

At Mangar International we are experts in providing simple, cost effective manual handling products that can make a real and immediate different within a care home.

The following are products we can offer to help; for more information click on the product name. We have a team of Area Managers based around the UK who would be happy to come and show your staff our products, and let you see for yourself the benefit they could bring. Demonstrations by our Area Managers are completely free of charge and there will be no pressure selling or obligation to buy. If you would like to arrange a demonstration please call us on 01544 267 674 or send us an email.

CAMEL (Complete Air Moving Elevating Lift) to lift people from the floor to an elevated seated position

Elk Emergency lifting cushion to lift a resident who has fallen

Lifting Cushion to assist with standing from an armchair

Maxi Lifting Cushion to assist larger residents with standing from an armchair

Archimedes bathlift to assist a resident to take a bath safely and privately.

Seat Turn Cushion for seated transfer

Turnplate for standing and seated transfer

Glideboards in various shapes and sizes

Glide Belts for support during transfer - great for use with the CAMEL and Elk lifting cushions

Sit-on-Towel for use with Glideboards

Mobicare bed toppers to help move bed-bound residents

Mobiturn bed topper for help to move and position people in bed

Minicare mobile tube cushion to assist with repositioning residents

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