Safe Manual Handling

Aims:

• To understand the causes of common back injuries
• To understand the principles of good movement
• To know how to apply these principles to their own work situations
• To have practised the correct movements under the supervision of the trainer

Overview:

Safe Manual Handling is a three hour workshop for personnel who are involved in manually moving objects. 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.

Certifications Awarded:

• Certificate of Attendance

Course content:

• Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended 2004)
• Principles of good movement
• Practical application of movements
• Discussion of application of principles to jobs
• Review of Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended 2004)
• Principles of good movement
• Common back injuries and their causes
• Video presentation
• Review of practical session
• Common back injuries and their causes
• Video presentation

Sectors:

Health and Safety

Every year more than 200 people are killed in accidents at work and over one million people are injured. That is why health and safety is so important. Llite has been delivering Health and Safety training to companies and individuals for years. Llite's expert tutors use a variety of training methods to interact with learners to deliver the most informative, interesting and engaging learning experience they can.

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