Manual Handling Training
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Why is manual handling training important?
It’s estimated that 21% of all non-fatal workplace injuries are attributable to manual handling injuries and that a third of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are also caused through manual handling activities. Our manual handling
training courses are designed to help minimise the incidence of MSDs, reduce
the risk of injury to your employees and increase productivity through absence
avoidance.
Is manual handling a legal requirement?
As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risk of injury
associated with hazardous manual handling. Although manual handling
training is not mandatory for all employees, the law sets out how employers
must deal with the risks associated with manual handling through:
- Avoiding hazardous manual handling, so far as is reasonably practicable
- Assessing the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided
- Reducing the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling to as low as
reasonably practicable
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Learn how to lift safely, using techniques such as ‘LITE’ and ‘TILE’
- Learn how to carry out ‘LITE’ assessments to reduce the risk of injury
This course is for those with little or no previous experience of manual handling. If you are new to kinetic Manual Handling this is the course for you
This course is designed for those that have been lifting for a long time but not using the correct techniques.
Keep your skills up to date.
To refresh job safety knowledge, and give corrective remedial and tests to truck operators who though previously trained and certificated may require a short safety refresher course, to maintain the correct standards of operation at an acceptable level.
