Manual Handling Training

Manual handling training will reduce risks in the workplace, accidents account for more than a third of all accidents reported each year.

While fatal manual handling accidents are rare, accidents resulting in a major injury are more common, accounting for more than 10% of the total number of reported manual accidents.

The vast majority of reported manual handling accidents result in over-three-day injury, most commonly a sprain or strain, often of the back. Manual handling injuries can happen anywhere in the workplace – in offices, construction sites, hospitals, farms and in schools.

Manual Handling training is for everyone who carries out manual handling tasks in the course of their work. This includes Office staff who may have manual handling activities of a low risk to healthcare Staff and warehouse operatives who have a higher risk of sustaining injury from Manual handling activities. This course can be delivered in your workplace anywhere in Liverpool for up to 12 delegates.

The Manual Handling Training training course is a half day incorporating both theoretical and practical input.

• Responsibilities imposed by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (M.H.O.R.)
• Movement of Loads
• Risk assessments
• Workplace legislation
• Health and safety principles
• Manual handling injuries and the activities which cause them
• Musculoskeletal Injuries
• Safe handling principles
• Practical assessment
• Theory Test