We are taking a proactive approach to safety, providing key practical information to equip your teams to do their job safely and promote a positive culture of safe work practice to ensure everyone goes home safely each day.
Our Move Smart Program is here to ensure that your team gains practical knowledge and develops the skills required to perform correct posture and lifting techniques during manual handling tasks.
Move Smart ‘Safe Work Practice in Action’ Program
Our Nursing, Midwifery and Theatre employees are currently undertaking the ‘Safe Work Practice in Action’ Program. This six-week program is designed to help our Move Smart Champions coach our teams in key areas of safe work practices. Each week there is a focus on a set of common manual handling tasks, summarising two to three Safe Work Practices. This is supported by a set of visual material, including posters, to enhance individual and team learning.
Unit Managers are responsible for supporting their Unit Move Smart Champions to promote the Program. Your Move Smart Champions will:
- print the weekly poster and make them available in your team huddle areas,
- introduce the week’s Safe Work Practices concepts at team huddles,
- observe these practices in action during the week, providing on-the-job feedback and coaching to individuals as required.
Do you have enough Move Smart Champions on your unit?
Each nursing unit requires a Move Smart Champion ratio of 1:30 (if a unit has 90 staff, you will require three Move Smart Champions).
If a Move Smart Champion is no longer available, you are responsible for nominating a new Move Smart Champion and organising for them to attend the next two-day Move Smart Champion Training, which can be booked via LATTE. Please note that all costs for the participating unit Move Smart Champions will be backfilled via a cost centre transfer to R2053.
For more information on the Move Smart Program, visit the dedicated Move Smart page on the Safety Intranet page or contact the Move Smart Team at movesmart@monashhealth.org.
Approved by Chris McLoughlin, Executive Director People & Culture