The 3-hour training uses revised and improved material and is delivered by a RoSPA qualified trainer. It covers all aspects of safe manual handling, including lifting techniques and LITE.
Employers have a legal obligation to properly assess and control manual handling risks, and injuries caused through poor manual handling are a common reason for sickness absence.
We offer two courses, one for operators who may be at risk from manual handling injuries, the other is for managers / supervisors who need to understand potential risks and comply with legal requirements.
Course overview
Employers have a legal obligation to properly assess and control manual handling risks. This responsibility includes doing the utmost to prevent injuries caused through poor manual handling, a common cause of sickness absence. Keeping safe is in everyone’s interest: reduce the risks, reduce the number of absentee days for the business.
We offer two different manual handling courses to help businesses minimise sick days and keep on the right side of HSE: for operators who may be at risk from manual handling injuries;
3-hour course for operators
The 3-hour training uses revised and improved material and is delivered by a RoSPA qualified trainer. It covers all aspects of safe manual handling, including lifting techniques and LITE. Plus, the course explores in some depth why safe manual handling is so important to an employee’s health now and future wellbeing.
Our training is flexible and designed for those who undertake manual handling activities in their working role. It can be customised so that delegates can experience handling objects which they would normally encounter in their workplace.
Course overview
The essential components operators will learn are:
Base positions and movements;
Good handling techniques;
Basic physiology (spine, anatomy, structure and function).
Course overview
Managers, supervisors and responsible employees will learn:
Legal requirements;
Ergonomics;
Implementing safe handling policies;
Risk assessments.
MOHS was established in 1962 as a registered charity to provide quality occupational health services and medical provision to organisations and businesses in both the private and public sectors.
As an independent provider, we have the strength in depth to deliver bespoke and proactive solutions, tailored to a client’s requirements and budgets, and clinical support to resolve workplace health issues.
Our clients include a wide range of organisations in both the public and private sectors including housing associations, educational institutions, blue chip organisations and SMEs.
Relationships with our clients
Our key strength is our ability to forge strong and long-lasting relationships with our clients and their employees. Our approach is based on close client contact to ensure consistent, reliable and relevant processes that are well coordinated and managed, and delivered in accordance with corporate policies and procedure and legislative guidelines.
We focus on identifying and preventing health issues, restoring good health and promoting wellbeing in the workplace through our extensive range of market leading services:
Occupational health
Health surveillance
Medical assessments
Absence management
First aid at work training
Health & safety courses / assessments
Employee wellbeing & health promotion
Mental health awareness / training courses
Our team of occupational health physicians, advisors, technicians and administrators all work together closely, sharing expertise and best practice.
Registered charity
As a registered charity, we are committed to the ethos of social enterprise. Any surplus income is reinvested into our business to allow continual development and service improvement.
Mission statement
To ensure contemporary and relevant occupational health and wellbeing by:
measuring and meeting the needs of our clients
assuring affordable and efficient care for their employees
evolving the excellence of our clinical teams and their resources
Business objectives
To provide a comprehensive service in occupational health, medical expertise, employee wellbeing and health and safety training.
To incorporate a high-quality bespoke service, sustaining all client needs and expectations.
To continue committing to quality management systems, meeting all the requirements of ISO 9001 and SEQOHS, and to continuous improvement.
To further develop client satisfaction and other KPI activity.
To share best practice and benchmarking activity.
Accreditations
These accreditations ensure our clients receive the best practice standards as well as having structures and processes in place to adapt quickly and easily to legislative changes.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
MOHS is committed to the integration of social and environmental concerns into our business operations and into our interaction with our stakeholders on a voluntary basis. We intend that CSR should become embedded, where appropriate, into our policies and practices, to the benefit of staff as well as the wider community.
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