• 1 hour verifiable CPD
  • Standalone course
  • Whole dental team
  • GDC outcomes C, D

A 1-hour course on moving boxes, equipment and — when it happens — people, without wrecking your back or dropping a compressor on a foot.

Course aim

Give the team a TILE-based way to plan lifts, use the kit you already have, and stop ‘heroic’ carries of gypsum bags up the stairs.

What you will be able to do

  1. 1Apply TILE: task, individual, load, environment before you lift
  2. 2Use team lifts, trolleys and breaking-down loads instead of a single heroic carry
  3. 3Describe safer posture and why twisting with a heavy load fails
  4. 4Know when a patient or collapsed person is a handling task for trained help, not a rugby tackle

Use Start course below to begin at lesson 1. Later lessons unlock as you complete each step.

Suitable for: the whole team, including reception and practice managers.

Always follow current HSE manual-handling guidance and your written assessments. Where the law and your assessment require practical training, this course is the knowledge layer only.