Why provide Manual handling training?
As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risk of injury in the workplace.
The law sets out how employers must deal with risks from manual handling:
- Avoid hazardous manual handling, so far as is reasonably practicable
- Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided
- Reduce the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling to as low as reasonably practicable
This half day course is for employees who are carrying out lifting and handling tasks as part of their work.
It will cover the following topics
- The employer’s and employee’s responsibilities for HSE compliance
- Basic spinal anatomy and biomechanics
- Common types and mechanisms of manual handling injuries
- How to identify and reduce risks of manual handling relative to work practices and individual behaviour (method of lifting, posture, benefits of exercise etc.)
- How to identify and reduce risks relative to the task, the load, the working environment and the individual capacity
- Demonstration and practice of basic techniques
- Discussion of problems specific to employees
Maximum class size 12 participants.