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This page describes the Old Way New Way^® approach to manual handling training and how it greatly improves transfer of training and compliance in manual handling.

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Manual handling training tools: Rapid and permanent correction of bad work habits

Manual handling training tool benefits:

• improve manual handling compliance
• achieve 80% - 100% correction of a bad manual handling work habit after one 15 minute training session, with no falling back to old ways
• speed up transition and conversion training
• greatly improve transfer of learning and eliminate negative transfer in manual handling
• eliminate long and repetitive classroom training sessions - you only need one session lasting one hour
• eliminate costly participant booklets or other expensive consumables/training materials
• correct a bad work habit you've spotted, on the spot and with minimal interruption to work flow
• correct a group of operators or a whole work team who share the same bad work habit, either on the spot during work or in a brief one-hour classroom training session
• reduce the need for ongoing supervision of manual handling work practices and eliminate nagging because operators remember what they were taught
• increase employee flexibility and adaptability to change.

Manual handling program features. This training tool:

• uses a learning method proven in workplace trials at ALCOA and published in Safety News, the OHS journal of the National Safety Council of Australia
• is backed by Australian National Training Authority funded research published in the Journal of Vocational Education and Training
• is readily adopted by manual handling trainers, instructors, workplace coaches and supervisors as part of their professional toolkit
• is being used in-house by both large and small corporations, government departments and small businesses
• is available as a 140 page manual on CD ROM (with video demo) or downloaded (PDF file, with video transcript)
• is a generic manual handling training tool suitable for all workplace trainers, supervisors, instructors, coaches, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, training consultants
• can be learned through self-paced CD ROM ($59), downloaded ($39) or online courses ($395) and tailor made workshops ($495 per person).

Manual Handling: Rapid Correction of Bad Work Habits course

Manual Handling: Rapid Correction of Bad Work Habits is an advanced workplace training skills course designed for experienced trainers, managers, supervisors, organisational psychologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, change agents, and employees in all kinds of occupations.

Old Way New Way^® manual handling training can enrich your training experience and improve your training effectiveness.

Old Way New Way^® manual handling training is well grounded in psychological learning theory and is verified by published experimental research in refereed professional journals. Furthermore, the record of its success in practical situations involving workplace behaviour change and improved safety compliance stands unchallenged (e.g., Weaver, G., Baxter, P., & Lyndon, H. Changing Work Habits: More Gain, Less Pain. Safety News, October 2000, pp. 58-59. National Safety Council of Australia Ltd.).

The course will provide you with explanations, demonstrations, and step-by-step instructions so you can quickly start using Old Way New Way to accelerate manual handling learning.

You will learn the fascinating theoretical background of Old Way New Way; discover how it has been used to quickly correct manual handling and other skill development problems, work procedure problems, poor work habits, skill transitions, and other performance problems at work; see a step-by-step demonstration of its use to change the manual handling (lifting) of an operator; learn to prepare your own skill correction and behaviour change protocols that you can use in many different workplace training and performance situations; and learn how to use Old Way New Way to speed up adaptation to things new, and make employees more flexible and adaptable to change.

Manual Handling: Rapid Correction of Bad Work Habits course content

• course introduction, learning objectives, and rationale for the course structure
• background reading for the practical assignments, with a self-administered test of understanding of the main concepts, accompanied by model answers
• demonstration of the brain mechanism that slows down change and improvement and makes old manual handling work habits die hard
• a practical assignment that teaches you the generic steps in Old Way New Way manual handling training
• a practical assignment that guides you, step by step, to use Old Way New Way, first to change your own behaviour and skilled work performance, and then to change an operator's manual handling technique, and a ten-minute video demonstration that shows you how the latter was actually done
• other practical assignments that show you how to use Old Way New Way to change the manual handling performance of team or crew members, and whole teams
• a generic Old Way New Way^® protocol template that you can modify to suit many different kinds of manual handling technique and work habit correction, and other work performance problems
• stepwise comparison of Old Way New Way^® and conventional manual handling training, so you can quickly understand where they overlap, and see the important differences
• case studies of how Old Way New Way^® can improve workplace performance in hazardous materials handling, safety training, workplace health, customer relations, pilot training, transition training, workplace literacy, work habits, and other workplace performance problems
• examples of how Old Way New Way^® has been used in physical therapy
• examples of its use to correct misconceptions and misunderstandings that may be the root cause of workplace performance problems
• how to use Old Way New Way^® for skill transition training, and platform migration
• list of published research that underpins this methodology
• implementation support options, including e-consultation, an online course, and on-site consultation.

Manual Handling Training program: Rapid Correction of Bad Work Habits course for manual handling and other workplace trainers - new formats

Choose from these manual handling training program formats.

manual handling training program, including video:

CD ROM containing course materials including a ten-minute video demonstration (AU$59). Currency conversion). Order form.

Downloaded courses without video:

Manual handling program downloaded file containing course materials including a transcript of the video demonstration but no video footage (AU$39. Currency conversion). Order form.

manual handling online course:

Manual handling online trainer development course includes all course material on CD ROM including the video, plus step-by-step guidance and support in a course that is customised just for you (AU$395. Currency conversion). Order form. More details.

Manual handling trainer development workshops:

Manual handling training workshop tailor made for workplace trainers and supervisors from beginner to experienced level. Cost $495 per person (group size 10 to 15) including CD ROM and post-workshop implementation support. Email us for more details. Currency conversion. Order form.

Combinations:

You could start with the CD course and then, if you found you needed more training, pay the difference and get the online course.

Manual handling online course

Take our tailor made, self-paced online manual handling training skills courses. Course assignments are hands-on and integrated into your normal day-to-day managerial, educational and training activities so covering the course content does not become an added burdon in an already busy schedule. Our online manual handling training skills course:

• is tailored to your own individual requirements and purpose
• draws on your professional and personal experience
• incorporates interesting and practical work-based projects that immediately apply what you learn
• enables you to work directly with your employees who have work procedure or safety difficulties to correct those problems
• is self-paced and flexible
• suits your learning style
• is affordable, cost-effective and good value for money.

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Why don't they learn?

Trainers, teachers, instructors and sports coaches try to get it right the first time with their students, trainees and athletes but invariably end up spending a lot of time trying to correct errors, misconceptions, non-compliance, technique faults and bad habits that somehow develop.

Because these errors were not corrected early, and were inadvertently repeated over and over (i.e., practised), many error patterns are actually learned, habitual and automatic and therefore much harder to eradicate.

For example, John always writes "recieve" instead of "receive"; Mike always has to be reminded to wear his safety goggles; Mary always slices her golf swing; Susan always follow cars too closely when driving; and Geoff is mentally still following the previous aircraft’s pre-flight checklist even though he's converted to another aircraft.

We all know that old habits die hard and many habit patterns are resistant to conventional change methods.

These limitations of traditional teaching and training programs are apparent in all settings including sport, workplace training, education, therapy and personal development.

Re-training or re-education, the typical solution to these problems, improves things only slowly, if at all.

Although learners may appear to pay attention during instruction and practice their new, correct, skills and knowledge over and over, the next day when placed under pressure or when unsupervised and left to their own devices, they seem to have forgotten what they’ve learned and the same habit pattern errors (old entrenched attitudes, beliefs, misunderstandings, work practices and routines, faulty procedures, poor techniques and unsafe behaviours) resurface.

A prolonged adjustment period and poor transfer of learning are the two most typical outcomes of education, training and coaching efforts worldwide.

All this wastes talent and resources and makes change and transition programs so much less cost-effective. There’s got to be a better way.

Fortunately, a cognitive science discovery called Old Way New Way Learning offers:

1. A new perspective on the transfer of training problem.

2. A fast and practical method of transition training.

3. A cost-effective and user-friendly method for rapid skill and technique correction, and habit eradication.

This page describes the Old Way New Way^® approach to manual handling training and how it greatly improves transfer of training and compliance in manual handling.