Health and Safety Training - Half Day Manual Handling Training Course

More than a third of all over-three-day injuries reported each year to HSE and local authorities are caused by manual handling. Manual handling is the transporting or supporting of loads by hand or by bodily force. Surveys show that on average over a million people a year in Great Britain suffer from musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) which have been caused or made worse by their current or past work.

Who should attend?
People whose work involves moving loads and where workplace risk assessments highlight the need for training. Manual handling training should form part of every new employee's induction. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations place a duty on every employer to reduce the potential injury from manual handling operations.

Aims and objectives of the course:
The Course provides an insight into the risks associated with moving & handling and teaches safer lifting & carrying techniques. To Increase awareness of safe manual handling of loads and to reduce the risk of occupational injury while carrying out manual handling tasks in the workplace.

At the end of the course delegates will:

• Have a basic knowledge of human anatomy.
• Appreciate manual handling legislation and risk assessment.
• Understand the principles of safe manual handling.
• Be able to apply these principles to their own work situations.

Course Content:

Duration of Course:
The course runs over a ½ Day period and is up to 3 ½ to 4 hours depending on the number of delegates attending the course.

Maximum Participants:
To ensure that all delegates receive the maximum benefit from our training courses, delegate places are limited to 12 per course.

Instructor:
The instructor for this course will be a certified instructor with over 3 year’s experience in Health & Safety related training.
Instructors are periodically assessed by our own quality control assessor, the client should be aware of this quality control assessment could be carried out without prior notice being given to the client.

Equipment required:
This course requires a training area/room with the facilities to comfortably accommodate the maximum number of delegates. The delegates will require a table and equipment to make notes and the instructor needs power and a place to show a presentation.

Assessment:
Throughout the course there is a constant assessment by the instructor who will ask questions about what he has covered in the course, some may be theoretical or some may be practical. At the end of the course there is a 30 question multiple choice paper to be completed by all delegates. A pass mark of 72% is set for all delegates. Once these papers are marked and delegates passed then they will proceed to a 15 minute practical assessment.

Certificate:
All delegates that succeed with the course will receive an A4 certificate of attendance that will be valid for 3 years.