Details
Our half-day Manual Handling course will show your staff how to carry out manual handling tasks correctly and therefore avoid back injuries. To comply with current Health and Safety legislation, staff engaged in manual handling must be given training in safe manual handling techniques. By training your staff how to conduct manual handling safely, you are complying with your legal requirements. Back injuries caused by incorrect manual handling techniques are one of the most frequent causes of workers compensation claims.
This is not an instructor’s course. The healthcare provider should follow patient handling and moving, see Patient handling for info and booking.
Who should attend this Manual Handling course?
All staff engaged in manual handling activities during their working day
Course Objectives
On completion of this programme, participants will be able to:
- Lift and handle loads safely.
- Recognise a load which is too heavy or awkward.
Course Programme
- Dangers of careless and unskilled methods.
- Principles of levers and laws of motion.
- Anatomy of the spine and muscular system.
- How the body is harmed through incorrect handling techniques.
- How to handle loads safely.
- Lifting to and from ground level.
- Lifting to and from a height.
- Lifting (bags, sacks, barrels, where appropriate).
- Other organisation specific lifting tasks.
- Competence testing.
Methods of Training
The course is highly interactive with each theory session being followed by a demonstration, practical tasks and assessment of individual skills.
Assessment and certification
Continuous assessment throughout the course. Students receive a PSTC Certificate on completion. The certificate is valid for 3 years.
all our trainers are EMT/Paramedic with years of experience in the field
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