Safe Manual Handling
Aims:
The safe manual handling or manual handling regulations training course as it is also known, explains the basic principles of correct manual handling, and the injuries which can be caused by poor lifting technique in accordance with manual handling regulations.
Who will benefit from this course:
All employees, particularly those whose work involves a disproportionate level of manual handling.
Course Modules:
- Introduction – (10 mins) Describes the high accident rate caused by poor manual handling and explains how everyone is at risk.
- Reducing the Risk – (10 mins) Outlines the measures which employers should take to protect the workforce, but stresses that employees also have a major role to play by recognising, and reporting if necessary, activities which force them into bad postures.
- Your Back – (15 mins) Explains how poor handling technique can cause injury to the spine, and why some injuries cause permanent disability. Contains back strengthening exercises.
Good Handling Technique – (15 mins) How to lift and move objects and people safely. - Team Lifting – (10 mins) Basic principles of team lifting.
- Pushing and Pulling – (10 mins) Techniques which may be used to avoid lifting.
- Self Test – (10 mins) Twenty questions to test your understanding of the course.
The average course completion time is:
80 minutes.
Online Training Course List
Select from our range of courses below:
- Asbestos in the Workplace
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Chemical Safety
- Management of Health and Safety at Work
- Confined Space Awareness
- Noise at Work
- Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations 2002 (DSEAR)
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 98 (PUWER)
- Working with Display Screen Equipment
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR)
- Electrical Safety
- Risk Assessment
- Electricity at Work Regulations
- Safe Manual Handling
- Environmental Management
- Safe Working at Heights
- Fire Safety
- Safety Matters
- Heat Stress at Work
- Safety Signs Awareness
- Introduction to Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH)
- Safety Signs and Signals Regulations
- Introduction to PPE
- Welding Safety
- Legionnaires Disease
- Working Safely with Flammable Liquids and Powders