Manual Handling Course

Introduction

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, as amended in 2002 apply to a wide range of manual handling activities, including lifting,lowering, pushing, pulling or carrying. The load may be either inanimate - such as a box or a trolley, or animate - a person.

More than a third of all over-three-day injuries reported each year to HSE and local authorities are caused by manual handling - the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force.

Manual handling injuries can occur wherever people are at work. Heavy manual labour, awkward postures, manual materials handling, and previous or existing injury are all risk factors implicated in the development of musculoskeletal disorders.

Aims 

The course aims to make employees aware of their responsibilities aswell as their employer's in accordance with the Regulations:

Avoid the need for hazardous manual handling, so far as is reasonably practicable;

Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling that can’t be avoided; and

Reduce the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling, so far as is reasonably practicable.

It will help delegates understand:

* Manual handling risk factors and how injuries can occur;
* How to carry out safe manual handling including good handling technique
* Appropriate systems of work for the individual’s tasks and environment;
* Use of mechanical aids;
* Practical work to allow the trainer to identify and put right anything the trainee is not doing safely.

The Course includes:

• Employer’s and employee’s legal responsibilities
• Common hazards when lifting & moving
• Accident statistics
• Risk assessment
• Causes of injury & strain
• Main parts of the spine
• Correct handling techniques
• Weight limits and guidelines
• Assessment of individual safe limits

The course is accredited by Emergency First Response.

Source: HSE website: http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg143.pdf

Delegates will be issued with a Certificate of Attendance.