Assessing Manual Handling Operations

Getting the business benefits

Assessing Manual Handling Operations is a one day training course specifically for training those people responsible for performing risk assessments required by the Health and Safety Executive Regulations on Manual Handling Operations. The course includes a thorough description of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations and the ergonomics principles that that should be applied to reduce the risk of manual handling injury. This approach not only delivers legal compliance, but will help reduce sickness and absenteeism, lower healthcare costs, insurance premiums and compensation claims and improve the productivity of the workforce.

Who should attend?

This course is suitable for all types of participant, including safety engineers, facilities professionals, managers, health and safety professionals and occupational health departments.

What skills and information will they learn?

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify potential causes of manual handling back injuries
• Develop ergonomic solutions that can be applied to reduce these injuries
• Encourage correct lifting postures, techniques and principles that minimise injuries to workers
• Use ergonomics principles to re-design manual handling tasks, work areas and work equipment
• Complete an ergonomics checklist to prioritise levels of risk.

Course content

This course is highly interactive with many different group activities. It uses slides and video (taken from the client site when the course is customised) to reinforce the ergonomics principles presented. A comprehensive reference manual and assessment checklist are provided and participants are given the opportunity to apply the technique to videotaped examples of manual handling tasks.

Key elements of the course are:

Introduction to Ergonomics

• Anthropometry and Anatomy

Types and causes of injuries and illnesses

• Back/lower limb

Ergonomics principles applied to:

• Manual Handling
• Work procedures
• Work area layout
• Seated workstation jobs
• Standing workstation jobs

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations

• The Regulations
• The risk assessment procedure

Ergonomics checklists

• Instruction and demonstration
• Practical exercises
• Risk prioritisation process
• Solution design

Guidelines for measuring results

Course information and how to book

This one day course is offered in-house and is usually customised to use examples from your own business.

The course costs £1,500 + VAT for up to 16 participants, a cost of £94 + VAT per head for a full course. Customisation costs £1,400.

For further details, please call us on +44 (0)20 7240 3388 or email christine@system-concepts.com

What did previous participants think?

The instruction is of a high standard within a relaxed informal atmosphere.

Instructors allowed free and frank discussion of relevant issues.

Able, pleasant, allowed class to contribute, easy to work with, flexible programme.

Overall I found the course to be informative and beneficial to me as a manager.

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