Blog Category: Training Methods - Osteopaths for Industry

Employee Wellbeing Health & Safety Risk Assessment & Management Training methods

Ensuring New Workers’ Health and Safety: 6 Vital Steps for Employers

Starting a new job can be an exciting and challenging experience. However, research has shown that workers are as likely to have an accident within their first six months at work as they are…

OFI Training Team13 June 2023

Manual Handling People Moving & Handling Training methods Workstation Safety & DSE Training

It’s All About The Base!

“Your feet are one of the most overworked, underappreciated, and undervalued body parts, and they deserve your attention!” Lloyd Williams, MB BS FRCS (Tr&Orth) London-Based, Leading Consultant Specialist Foot and Ankle SurgeonWhen we’re rushing from…

OFI Training Team16 May 2023

Training methods

The Importance of Good Posture

You’ve no doubt seen this sign before. It is a sign often used near care homes up and down the country, to warn motorists of elderly people crossing the road. The sign has sparked…

OFI Training Team17 August 2022

Training methods

Revolutionary Simplicity in Manual Handling Training

Shane Morris - Manual handling trainer I recently read a story about a brilliant, pioneering doctor called Peter Provonost. Dr Provonost introduced a revolutionary protocol that saved thousands of lives. His revolutionary technique did…

OFI Training Team10 June 2022

Training methods

Safer Manual Handling – Changing Habits

Shane Morris - Osteopaths For Industry trainer Anyone who has ever attended an Osteopaths For Industry training course will have heard a discussion about habits. A question we like to ask delegates is “Why…

OFI Training Team2 April 2022

Manual Handling Training methods

Don’t take your health for granted – How to avoid upper limb disorders

As human beings, ironically, it is often the body's more vital functions that we take for granted - for example, the beating of our heart, or the movement of our rib cage inflating our…

OFI Training Team20 October 2021

People Moving & Handling Training methods

Clinical Individual Award Presented to OFI Trainer Emma Tarpey

OFI congratulates one of its manual handling consultants, Emma Tarpey, for her receipt of an AXREM (Association of Healthcare Technology Providers for Imaging, Radiotherapy and Care) ‘Clinical Individual’ award. This was announced at the…

OFI Training Team28 July 2021

Manual Handling Training methods

Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives

As a trainer in the field of Manual Handling training, it is deceptively easy to reinforce the message that we are simply biological machines that need educating in the 'reality' of basic mechanics. Staff…

OFI Training Team27 February 2021

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Make sure you monitor and evaluate!

It’s all very well updating your training methodologies, but if you’ve got no evaluation process in place you have no idea of what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you build a robust review…

OFI Training Team15 December 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training

Hands-on practical skills training is an absolute must. Too much spoken information can lead to a lower rate of learning retention. This is why our team of instructors, each a fully qualified osteopath or…

OFI Training Team1 October 2020

Manual Handling trainer, Laurence Jones, with spine

Manual Handling Training methods

Explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’

Have you ever left a training session feeling fuzzy about the connection between how to do a correct procedure, and why it is necessary to do it that way? OFI Manual Handling trainer and…

OFI Training Team15 September 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies

Weaving Anecdotes and real-life Case Studies into our training sessions helps to communicate learning more clearly. That is what we have discovered, over the course of more than 20 years delivering top quality training.…

OFI Training Team1 August 2020

People Moving and Handling delegate assisting elderly patient

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Mix up your training method!

Make your manual handling courses more engaging by refreshing your training methods. Let's face it: The mention of “Manual Handling training” is hardly likely to instil joy in the hearts of your employees. So…

OFI Training Team15 June 2020

Training methods

Apply the ‘Stages of Change’ model to your training

Research supports the ‘Stages of Change Model' in its approach to education in Risk Management Research studies, specifically in the field of musculoskeletal risk management, have shown strong evidence for the long-term effectiveness of…

OFI Training Team1 April 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling Trainers – Tailor your course to fit your audience

Make courses more engaging by customising training to suit your delegates. Research has yielded compelling evidence that tailored education to suit differing roles or recipient groups (i.e. management or operatives) is more effective. Tailored…

OFI Training Team14 February 2020

OFI Manual Handling trainer with delegates

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – How to make your courses more engaging

Training isn't just important - it is vital! So it's vital that you get your message across. Make 'practical' an important part of your manual handling training courses. As a Manual Handling trainer, you…

OFI Training Team14 January 2020

Lady using Manual Handling to stow overhead luggage on a plane

Training methods

Top 5 tips for improving staff morale

Do your employees drag themselves into work? Is a smile a vague memory? If so, your employees' morale may need a boost. Low morale can lead to poor cooperation, low productivity and increased staff…

OFI Training Team10 October 2019

Manual Handling Training methods

Maintaining Musculoskeletal Awareness with online education tools

Damon Peterson is the Director of Training for Osteopaths For Industry, and a keen believer in the importance of maintaining programmes and initiatives relating to improving awareness in manual handling. "There are many cost…

OFI Training Team29 April 2018

Manual Handling Training methods

Supporting the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign

Osteopaths For Industry are supporting the HSE's Go Home Healthy campaign to ensure employers know the risks of work-related ill health and enable them to do the right thing. Everyone has the right to go home healthy from work.…

OFI Training Team26 January 2018

Training methods

Ensuring New Workers’ Health and Safety: 6 Vital Steps for Employers

It’s All About The Base!

The Importance of Good Posture

Revolutionary Simplicity in Manual Handling Training

Safer Manual Handling – Changing Habits

Don’t take your health for granted – How to avoid upper limb disorders

Clinical Individual Award Presented to OFI Trainer Emma Tarpey

Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Make sure you monitor and evaluate!

Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training

Explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’

Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Mix up your training method!

Apply the ‘Stages of Change’ model to your training

Advice for Manual Handling Trainers – Tailor your course to fit your audience

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – How to make your courses more engaging

Top 5 tips for improving staff morale

Maintaining Musculoskeletal Awareness with online education tools

Supporting the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign

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