Manual Handling Courses

We are all exposed at times to some form of manual handling activity such as lifting, carrying, pulling, pushing, twisting and turning actions. Personal injuries resulting from incorrect manual handling practices in the workplace account for over one million lost working days per year, as well as the pain and suffering experienced by the persons injured. Correct manual handling techniques can make a huge difference to the health and safety of workers and significantly reduce staff sickness absences.

Health and Safety regulations require employers to provide their employees with health and safety information and training – supplemented, as necessary, with more specific information and training on manual handling injury risks and prevention.

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This course provides an ideal approach to safer and more effective manual handling – not only meeting HSE 

Syllabus:

• What is manual handling

• Legislation

• Avoiding manual handling

• Accident reporting

• Risk assessments

• Risks associated with lifting

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• Loads

• Working environment

• Individual capability

• Good practice

• Anatomy and physiology

• Practice assessment

Correct moving and handling of people reduces the risks of injury to both staff  and their service users when undertaking the transfer of people in their workplace.

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This course will identify best practice whilst highlighting poor practice and in doing so will equip students with the essential practical skills and techniques along with a clear understanding of the relevant principles and legal requirements in order to undertake the safe moving and handling of people

Syllabus:

• Health and Safety 

• Legislation 

• What is manual handling

• Duty of care

• Anatomy of the spine

• Common injuries

• Risk assessments

• Reducing risks and hazards

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• Biomechanics and ergonomics

• 21 Principles of safer handling

• Poor and unsafe practice

• Safe movement and transfer of people

• Using equipment to move people safely

This Safer People Moving and Handling (Refresher) course is designed for anyone who is involved in the moving and handling of people, who have already completed a full day Safer People Moving and Handling course and who require to update their knowledge.

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This course will ensure  that employers are able to meet their statutory obligations for manual handling training and that all staff are fully up to date with regard to their statutory manual handling practices and responsibilities.

Syllabus:

• Health and Safety 

• Legislation 

• What is manual handling

• Duty of care

• Anatomy of the spine

• Common injuries

• Risk assessments

• Reducing risks and hazards

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• Health and Safety 

• Legislation 

• What is manual handling

• Duty of care

• Anatomy of the spine

• Common injuries

• Risk assessments

• Reducing risks and hazards