Manual handling
This two and half hour course is designed to give managers and employees involved in manual handling and lifting at work, the opportunity to rethink the way they lift and handle items at work, to explore safer ways to do so and enable delegates to understand the importance or the need to plan out a way to carry out tasks with the opportunity to practice kinetic methods in the workplace.
Outcomes of this course
- Understand legislative requirements.
- Understand the risk involved in Manual handling
- Identifying hazards associated with manual handling
- Understanding risk control priorities
- Understand safe lifting techniques
The study topics include
- What is manual handling
- Current legislative requirements
- Employee and employer responsibilities
- Assessing the hazards and risk involved in manual handling tasks
- Safe manual handling techniques