Manual Handling

Under HSA manual handling best practice and to comply with current health and safety legislation under HSA manual handling best practice, staff must be given training in safe manual handling techniques. Our manual handling training course will show your staff how to carry out manual handling tasks correctly and therefore avoid back injuries. By training your staff how to conduct manual handling safely you are complying with your legal requirements. Back injuries caused by incorrect manual handling training techniques are one of the most frequent causes of workers compensation claims. This is not an instructors’ course.

You can book an in-house manual handling course in your company premises nationwide. We’ll send an instructor to you to carry out the training and get everyone trained and certified.

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On completion of this course participants will be able to:

-Lift and handle loads safely
-Recognise a load which is too heavy or awkward
-Course Programme
-Dangers of careless and unskilled methods
-Principles of levers and laws of motion
-Anatomy of the spine and muscular system
-How the body is harmed through incorrect handling techniques
-How to handle loads safely
-Lifting to and from ground level
-Lifting to and from a height
-Pushing
-Pulling
-Lifting (bags, sacks, barrels, where appropriate)
-Other organisation specific lifting tasks
-Competence testing
 

Regulation 68 of the 2007 regulations defines ‘manual handling of loads’ as:

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‘any transporting or supporting of a load by one or more employees and includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying, or moving a load, which, by reason of its characteristics or of unfavourable ergonomic conditions, involves risk, particularly of back injury, to employees.’

Assessment:
Each participant will be assessed on their practical techniques.

A completed assessment form for each participant will be supplied to their employer.

Certification:
The BKN TRAINING LIMITED  Manual Handling Certificate