Duration: ½ day
Manual
Handling - the Safe Handling and Moving of Loads in the Workplace:
We offer two courses to provide training and knowledge in the area of Manual Handling of Loads and the potentials of Harm that employees may suffer in the workplace against this Hazardous Risk.
For general employees we provide a half day course that gives a sound understanding of the regulations, their interpretation and the guidelines, along with robust appreciation of the hazards and risks on the moving, handling (and the continuum) of loads and awkward manoeuvres. Further to this we provide insight and awareness of each individuals own body mechanics and ensure practical assessment, refinement and peer observation.
Both courses are practical, visual and interactive, with opportunity to practise taught skills and techniques under the guidance and mentored supervision of the tutor and to discuss their application to each participant's own work. A course booklet and handouts are provided, the cover the key elements of the course.
Courses
Safe Manual Handling - Half day
Safer Handling of People - Full day
Safe Manual Handling
Overview
Not just Legislation, but business benefits. The Safe Manual Handling course and techniques taught on this half day course, is for people who are involved in 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 wellbeing and safety - and provide benefits from their enhanced awareness of better working practices.
This approach will help reduce sickness and absenteeism, lower costs and insurance - even compensation. Claims aside, the improved productivity of the workforce is a worthwhile outcome as well as the legislative requirement.
Content
- Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (amended 2004)
- Employer and Employee responsibilities and obligations
- Risk Assessment, Safe Working Loads and RIDDOR
- Handling Techniques - Old, Habitual and New
- Applying Legislation and Guidance
- Understand the causes of common back injuries
- Understand the principles of good movement
- Know how to apply these principles to their own work situations
- Practising and assessing the correct movements - peers and under the supervision of the tutor
- Common back injuries and their causes
- Spine and vertebrae structures
- Types of injuries, skeletal, muscular
- Biomechanics, Spinal Awareness and Posture
- Effect of posture and load position
- Techniques of kinetic handling
- Principles of good movement
- Assessing the load/s
- Lifting & lowering
- Pushing & pulling
- Stabilisation of Loads
After a brief video presentation and the practical application of movements
there is a facilitated and open review of the practical session and the candidate's
application of the learnt principles to their jobs.
Qualification Information
Certification of Manual Handling Awareness and Safely is issued to all candidates successfully demonstrating comprehension of the techniques taught and understanding of the course content - valid for one year.
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