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Manual Handling
Course Details
The Manual Handling course is intended to provide students with an understanding of how to safely handle loads. It covers practical aspects of lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing and pulling loads. It also provides information on the human spinal system, risk assessment, the legal responsibility of employers to their employees and techniques for the prevention of accidents. The course involves knowledge development, and a series of practical exercises, followed by scenarios that allow students to put their skills into practice
More than a third of all over three day injuries reported each year to the Health & Safety Executive and local Authorities are caused by manual handling 'the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force'. Most of the reported accidents caused by back injury, though hands, arms and feet are also vulnerable. In 1995, an estimated average of 11 working days per sufferer was lost through musculoskeletal disorders affecting the back, caused by work.
Many manual handling injuries build up over a period rather than being caused by a single handling incident. These injuries occur wherever people are at work (farms, building sites, factories, offices, warehouses, hospitals, banks, laboratories, logistic etc). Heavy manual labour, awkward posture, manual materials handling and previous or existing injury are all risk factors.
This course explains the problems associated with Manual Handling and teaches you the best practice in dealing with them. The principals are relevant to all managers and employees. Avoiding injuries from Manual Handling makes sound business sense.
Minimum age: 16 years
Course duration: 4 hours