Manual Handling Training Course

Manual handling applies to a range of activities including lifting, pushing, pulling or carrying. The load may be either animate, such as a person or animal, or inanimate, such as a box or trolley. Incorrect manual handling is one of the most common causes of injury at work.

This training course has been designed for those whose work involves the lifting and moving of equipment at work. This course will help employers, managers, safety representatives, and employees to control and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling. 

Your employees will receive manual handling training to the highest standard in compliance with the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992. By the end of the course, delegates will have learned the safe manual handling procedures necessary to perform their work task safely without the risk of injury.

Course Content:

• Course introduction – what is manual handling?
• Legislation – Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• Manual handling tasks within your workplace
• Hazard and risk analysis of your working practice
• Collective and individual controls
• Moving and handling assessments
• 5 steps to manual handling
• Principles of safe moving and handling
• Manual handling risk assessment
• 5 steps to carrying out a risk assessment
• Manual handling and upper limb disorders in the workplace
• Unsafe systems of work – latest HSE news
• Equipment demonstrations and practical assessment of course delegates
• Evaluation of your working practice when performing a manual handling task