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Training Course Summary:

** price based on group training In House ** ** This course is 2 hours in duration **

Introduction (10 mins)

What is Manual Handling?
Why is it important? Leading cause of workplace injuries
Immediate & long-term harm
The scale of the problem

Types of injury (10 mins)

How the back works, how it is harmed

Manual Handling Risk Factors (15 mins)

Risk factors of the TASK
of the LOAD
of the ENVIRONMENT
of the INDIVIDUAL

The Law (15 mins)

Manual Handling Regulations 1992
What to expect from Manual Handling Assessments

Break (10 mins)

Video – Manual Handling in a typical workplace (15 mins)

Control measures – ways of reducing risk (25 mins) Group exercise

Avoidance
Mechanisation
Improving the Task
Improving the Load
Improving the Environment
Protecting the Individual
selection & protective equipment

Safe Lifting Techniques (15 mins)
Practice and demonstrations for volunteers

Summary & Questions (5 mins)