Course Category: MANUAL HANDLING
Sector: ALL SECTORS
Course title: "Handling Carefully"
Course Reference: IL/DTHALF
Who should attend: Any person who is involved in manual handling
in the workplace and wants to learn how to conduct a personal risk
assessment and move and handle loads safely.
Course Details
Accreditations: Solutions Certificate
Price: Course price £550 + VAT
Duration: ½ Day
Course size: Number of Participants: Maximum 10
Course Aims
* To reduce risk of injury to staff handling loads.
* To assist with compliance of the Manual Handling Operations
Regulations 1992.
* To avoid prosecution and litigation.
This manual handling course has been designed with the core aim of
empowering people with the basic knowledge and skills to deal with
manual handling safely.
Course Introduction
This manual handling course has been designed to ensure each member of
your team is equipped with up to date manual handling training and
personal risk assessment skills so that, risks are reduced to employees,
mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.
The course centres on improving manual handling by combining the use of
criterion based risk assessment with current best practice handling
techniques.
This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes,
practices and motivation which is essential to improving safer handling
in the work place.
Participants discover simple and effective ways to move and handle
inanimate loads in a manner that requires far less physical effort, and
improves confidence in a range of environments.
This programme was originally designed in 1994, received by thousands of
people and has been subsequently developed to keep up with current best
practice and legal requirements.
Optional additional modules are available to this course - please ask
for more details
What delegates will learn
* How the law in respect to manual handling applies in the workplace
* Gain a better understanding of spinal mechanics
* How to look after your back
* How to conduct a personal or dynamic risk assessment in order to
avoid , reduce or eliminate risks
* How to communicate when handling in a team
* How to safely move and handle inanimate loads without the use of
equipment
Course Objectives:
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
* Apply personal risk assessment techniques to the demonstration of
the lifting, lowering, carrying supporting and pulling and pushing of an
inanimate load.
Assessment process
This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives.
Certification / Accreditation:
On successful completion of this programme participants will receive a
Solutions Certificate.
Special requirements of course participants:
They should be free of injury or any medical condition that may place
them at risk of injury.
Course Trainers:
Solutions trainers come from NHS professional backgrounds and have adult
teaching/ training qualifications. All are recognised by the Middlesex
University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.
