Safe Manual Handling Techniques

Getting the business benefits

Safe Manual Handling Techniques is a three hour workshop for people whose job involves moving things manually. It provides workers with the skills they need to decrease the risk of manual handling injuries, encouraging them to take responsibility for their own comfort and safety. This approach will help reduce sickness and absenteeism, lower healthcare costs, insurance premiums and compensation claims and improve the productivity of the workforce.

Who should attend?

Anyone whose job involves manual handling.

What skills and information will they learn?

After completing the course participants will:

• Understand the causes of common back injuries
• Understand the principles of good movement
• Know how to apply these principles to their own work situations
• Have practised the correct movements under the supervision of the trainer.

Course content

The course is practical, visual and inter-active, with ample opportunity to practise the movements under the supervision of the trainer and to discuss their application to participant's own work. A course booklet and checklist are provided. The key elements of the course are:

Introduction and objectives

Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended 2004)

• Employer obligations
• Employee obligations

Common back injuries and their causes

• Spine and vertebrae structures
• Types of injuries, skeletal, muscular
• Biomechanics
• Effect of posture and load position

Principles of good movement

• Lifting & lowering
• Pushing & pulling

Video presentation

Practical application of movements

Review of practical session

Discussion of application of principles to jobs

Note: The techniques taught in this course are also known as kinetic handling techniques. 

Course information and how to book

This three hour practical workshop is offered in-house. The course costs £600 + VAT for up to 12 participants, a cost of £50 + VAT per head for a full course.

For further details, please call us on +44 (0)20 7240 3388 or email contact us

What did previous participants think?

Instructors knowledgeable and proficient. Good understanding of our practices.

Structured and planned approach.

Very valuable course. Topic well delivered.

Provided key tools for task i.e. information pack, forms, guidance etc

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