COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To reduce risk of injury to staff handling loads.
• To assist with compliance of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
• To avoid prosecution and litigation.

This manual handling course has been designed with the core aim of empowering people with the basic knowledge and skills to deal with manual handling safely.

Course Introduction

This manual handling course has been designed to ensure each member of your team is equipped with up to date manual handling training and personal risk assessment skills so that, risks are reduced to employees, mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on improving manual handling by combining the use of criterion based risk assessment with current best practice handling techniques.

This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes, practices and motivation which is essential to improving safer handling in the work place.

Participants discover simple and effective ways to move and handle inanimate loads in a manner that requires far less physical effort, and improves confidence in a range of environments.

This programme was originally designed in 1994, received by thousands of people and has been subsequently developed to keep up with current best practice and legal requirements.

Optional additional modules are available to this course – please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

• How the law in respect to manual handling applies in the workplace
• Gain a better understanding of spinal mechanics
• How to look after your back
• How to conduct a personal or dynamic risk assessment in order to avoid , reduce or eliminate risks
• How to communicate when handling in a team
• How to safely move and handle inanimate loads without the use of equipment

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Apply personal risk assessment techniques to the demonstration of the lifting, lowering, carrying supporting and pulling and pushing of an inanimate load.

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives.

Certification / Accreditation:

On successful completion of this programme participants will receive a Solutions Certificate. 

Special requirements of course participants:

They should be free of injury or any medical condition that may place them at risk of injury.

Course Trainers:

Solutions trainers come from NHS professional backgrounds and have adult teaching/ training qualifications. All are recognised by the Middlesex University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.