Getting the business benefits

Safe Manual Handling Techniques is 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.

Course Content

The course is practical, visual and inter-active, with ample opportunity to practice 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

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