Lisa Harman

Highly experienced Principal Physiotherapist and Owner/Director at Equipt To Thrive.

Skilled in complex neurological and physical assessments in adults with expertise to provide scripted equipment requirements (wheelchairs/ sleeping solutions etc). Having created unique templates for functional capacity assessments, manual handling plans and other individualised documents to provide transparent instructions to third parties.

16 years of experience in developing and executing maintenance-based manual handling training nationally, and presenting at a number of annual conferences as a subject matter expert. Developing the 'No Lifting Project' in Japan, in collaboration with Sunlife and the "No Lifting Association" in Japan.

Leadership of a 16-person clinical team of Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, providing the clinical framework, governance, mentoring, and overall quality control of all work from this entire team.that is now shared amongst seniors.

• Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), 2008
• Australian Association of Exercise and Sports Science (AAESS), 2006
• National Safety Council of Australia (NCSA), 2017
• Australian Association of Manutention Practitioners (AAMP), 2013
• National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA), 2016
• Return to Work SA (RTWSA), 2012
• Australia and New Zealand Society of Occupational Medicine (ANZSOM), 2018

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• Shan Needham, Colleague and industrial physiotherapist at Safe Work Practice. AAMP board member., 0407 710 512
• Jaime Power, Colleague and occupational therapist at Safe Work Practice, 0412 635 826

• Level 2 Manutention Trainer.
• Level 2 AAMP Health 2.
• Certificate 4 in Training and Assessment.
• Hold a current Senior First Aid certificate and CPR
• Acupuncture certified physiotherapist.
• Trained in and has access to the OHS model ‘Jobfit Systems’.
• Hold a current Mandatory Notification Training Certificate.
• Member of AAESS (Australian Association of Exercise & Sport Science).
• Hold a current Level Two Sports Trainer’s certificate, completed in 2008 with Sports Medicine Australia SA.
• Hold a current SA full drivers license.
• Hold a current National Police Certificate
• MAT Assessor.
• DCSI and National NDIS Worker Screening checked.

• Assessment of adults with profound physical disabilities - particularly those with neurological causality
• Prescription of complex scripted equipment - such as wheelchairs, sleep systems and postural support systems
• Developing templates, mentoring and authoring complex functional capacity assessment reports and manual handling plans for individuals with profound physical disability. Many of these reports are tailored to be presented in line with the NDIS framework.
• Highly experienced in teaching and developing customised manual handling training based aorund best practice principles from Manutention Australia and the Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice 2018
• Sound experience with working within many types of frameworks, including both RTWSA, Work Safe Victoria, Job Fit Systems and within the framework of Com Care and EML.
• Daily experience developing return to work plans, writing job/task summaries and summarizing outcomes of physical capacity assessments in relation job-specific criteria.
• Developing, running, and evaluating train-the-trainer style manual handling training (hazardous manual tasks training)
• Confident and engaging public speaker with sound knowledge in Hazardous Manual Tasks training.
• Development of patented medical-grade manual handling aides under Medical Device Partnering Programs at Flinders University (SA)
• Extensive experience undertaking physical capacity assessments for: injured workers, pre-employment screening and re-assessments.
• Sound experience in analyzing ergonomic set up, assessing home environments for injured workers, work site assessment and clinical assessment of the injured worker.
• Has extensive experience attending case conferences, liaising with stakeholders and other health professionals to rehabilitate the injured worker.
• Teaching and coaching workers Nationally and Internationally (Japan).

• AHPRA registration as a Physiotherapist