Course Detail

Course Overview:

This Manual Handling training course, to be delivered as a customised in-company programme has been designed for employees who as part of their everyday work are involved in lifting inanimate objects and where a risk assessment has deemed it necessary for these employees to be trained in order to avoid back and other injuries associated with poor lifting techniques.

Pre-requirements

This course has been designed for employees who as part of their everyday work are involved in lifting inanimate objects.

Participants Study:

• Legislation
• Responsibilities
• Ergonomics
• Back Physiology
• Hazard Identification
• Risk Assessment
• Safe Handling
• Practical Workshops

Course Contents:

• Legislation – Legal Implications
• Employer Responsibilities
• Employee Responsibilities
• Ergonomics – Safe Work Practises
• Safe Handling
  • The Course is held over a four-hour period and on completion of this course, participants will be able to lift and handle goods in a safe manner. This will contribute to overall reduction and prevention of back injuries at work. They will also learn the essential rules of general prevention of back pain, as well as good work practice.
• Hazard identification
• Risk Assessment Techniques
• Implementing control measures
• Back Physiology
  • Have a basic understanding of the structure, anatomy and physiology of the back.
  • Understand how various forces, postures and movements can affect the back.
• Accident Investigation
  • Practical workshops
  • The practical sessions will make up approximately 50% of the course, in which participants will carry out exercises designed to illustrate many of the principles set forth in the lectures. Continual assessment will take place throughout the course to ensure that participants have understood and learnt the basics of good manual handling practice.