Manual Handling

Manual Handling Duties of employers

The regbulations should not be considered in isolation. Regulation 3(1) of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1992 requires employers to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to health and safety of their employees while at work.
Where it is not reasonably practicable to avoid the need for employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work that involves a risk of them being injured the employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of all such manual handling operations.
Course Content

The course is designed around 8 individual Modules and is suitable for all levels of staff handling inanimate objects. These modules represent approximately 4 hours study time for general staff and there is an 8-hour session for managers and supervisors.
Modules

·Injury Statistics
·The law
·Risk Assessment
·The Skeleton
·Biomechanics and Mechanism of injury
·Flexibility
·Ergonomics
·Principles of lifting Timings

1. Training courses are presented over one four hour session.

Venue

At your premises
At a local venue
Or if you need some special arrangement such as night shift courses, we will always try our best to accommodate.
Prices available on request