Manual Handling Awareness

This Manual Handling course teaches delegates how to improve their manual handling technique, how to conduct a personal risk assessment, and how to understand the risks linked with manual handling.

Learning outcomes
 

- Introduction and Legislation –manual handling is? How injuries are caused. The positive outcome of controlling risks, legislation, employer and employee duties and also HSE guidance.
- Techniques – How to lift from low levels, carrying, lowering from a height. Pushing and pulling and team handling.
- Reducing and Controlling the Risks – organising a manual lifting operation. Hierarchy of control measures, individual capacity and avoiding manual handling. How mechanical aids, changing the task, load and environment, personal protective equipment and reducing the risks from team handling can help in a situation.
- Risk Assessments – what is a risk assessment? Assessing task, load, and environmental hazards. Evaluating who may be harmed. Evaluating risks, recording findings and also reviewing and updating.
- Identifying the Risks – types of injury and the mechanics of movement and factors that increase the risk of harm. The course makes sure that the employees attending are able to work in line with HSE legislation.
 
Suitability
 

Anyone who conducts manual handling in their occupation. Also useful for individuals who wish to reduce their personal risk when handling.

 
Assessment
 

Short written assessment.