Teaching · Special Education

Every transfer, done the same way by every adult.

List each transfer in the student’s day with its method, staff and equipment, check the written safety steps and who has been trained. The summary flags understaffed lifts, capacity limits and stale training.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Special Education toolkit, $99 for 130 items.

The transfer reference

One reference per student; review it when the student, the equipment or the staff change. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Special Education$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A one-page reference of the student’s transfers and precautions, a lift capacity check, and the fixes to make before the next transfer.
Who it is for
School physical therapists, special education teachers, paraprofessionals and school nurses.
Format
Browser form. One saved reference per student; printed with its summary or as a blank form; CSV of the transfers or staff; export and import a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Special Education toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Special Education space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
the same steps, every time
Drawn for this page. A transfer done the same way by every adult protects the student and the staff.

How to use it

  1. Start a reference with a code or initials and the review date.
  2. Copy each transfer from the physical therapist’s written procedure.
  3. Read the lift’s rated capacity from its label and enter it.
  4. Check every safety step is in the written procedure.
  5. List the trained staff, then post the printout where transfers happen.

Start a transfer reference

Read this before using it

Why staff counts matter

Mechanical lifts and two-person lifts are the transfers where staff and students are most often hurt. Many districts and lift makers require two trained staff for them; check your own rules.

Training

Staff need hands-on training on this student, from the therapist or nurse, before they transfer alone. A yearly refresher, and a new one when the student or equipment changes, is common practice.

What it is not

Not a guide to transfer technique and not a substitute for training. It keeps the procedure the therapist wrote visible to the people who use it.

Sources

  1. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Safe Patient Handling and Mobility, cdc.gov/niosh.
  2. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Safe patient handling: preventing musculoskeletal disorders, osha.gov.
  3. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Patient lifts: safety guide for caregivers, fda.gov.
  4. American Physical Therapy Association, Academy of Pediatric Physical Therapy. School-based physical therapy fact sheets, pediatricapta.org.

The example student, staff and equipment are made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.