The Guide to the Handling of People 5th edition (HOP5) is a book that many of use utilise as means of proving our methods and suggestions. It is a book that is quoted in courts of law and in almost every publication and article dealing with the art of safe patient handling. As such, it is also a book that many of us hide behind when people or powers that be give us a hard time, directing them to its “authority”. But who are the people behind the book? Where has their recognition come from?
This is the first in a new series of introducing you to the authors of HOP5. Starting with Mike Betts, co-author of chapter 17 which is dealing with the falling and fallen person. Mike has his own business, MJB Training and recently became the chairman of the National Back Exchange.
Click the link below to “follow along” with the conversation between us.
