Manual Handling

Safe Manual Handling Techniques course is a workshop for people whose job involves moving things manually. It provides workers with the skills they need to decrease the risk of manual handling injuries, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own comfort and safety. This approach will help reduce sickness and absenteeism, lower healthcare costs, insurance premiums and compensation claims and improve the productivity of the workforce.

Course Content

• How to carry out safe manual handling, including good handling technique
• Employers duties/employees duties.
• The statistics.
• The structure and function of the human spine.
• The anatomy of the spine.
• Why we need fitness and diet.
• Special factors in operation.
• Minimum & maximum lifting capacity capacity of the individual
• Recovery periods.
• The base movement lifting.
• Exercise and discussion.
• Personal protective equipment
• Pushing & pulling.
• Awkward loads.
• Heavy Loads
• Team lifting
• Use of mechanical aids

Target Audience

• Trainees who would benefit from selecting this course are likely to be: Involved in a lot of manual handling during their working activity.
• They may work inside or outside.
• They would be tackling all types of manual handing tasks in a wide range of environments where the activities and locations vary from day to day.

Course start time 08.30

You are required to bring with you

• Pens
• Paper