What do employers have to legally do to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries?

Employers have several legal obligations designed to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries. These include: avoiding hazardous manual handling, assessing the risk by identifying potential hazards, evaluating the likelihood of injury, and determining appropriate control measures, implementing control measures to minimize the risk of manual handling injuries, providing information and training as required, monitoring and reviewing the effectiveness of any control measures, and reviewing them periodically. In short, the Manual Handling Operations Regulations require employers to avoid, assess, and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling.

What is the difference between Manual Handling and Moving and Handling?

Manual Handling refers to the activities that involve lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or moving objects or loads by hand or bodily force. It includes a wide range of tasks, such as lifting boxes, pushing carts, or carrying heavy items. Manual handling training specifically addresses the safe and proper techniques for performing these tasks to minimize the risk of injury. Moving and Handling training is a broader term that encompasses not only manual handling but may also include the safe movement and handling of people.

How often should Manual Handling training be updated?

Manual Handling certificates are valid for 3 years, but it may be useful to refresh your Manual Handling skills more frequently if you work in an environment where there is an increased risk of Manual Handling injury.

Manual Handling

The Manual Handling course focuses on training individuals' and teams in the proper techniques for safely moving and handling objects.

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What is a Manual Handling course?

The Manual Handling training course aims to educate individuals on best practices to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries and promote safe and efficient movement in the workplace.

The course covers various aspects related to Manual Handling including:

1. Why do you need Manual Handling training?

Understanding what safe manual handling is.
Recognising the impact of poor manual handling, including common injuries, such as Impact to the employer and Impact to the individual.

2. Understanding your back:

Understanding the basic structure and functions of the spine.
Recognising how poor manual handling technique can result in back pain.

3. Safe manual handling:

Understanding how to assess the risk of moving a load.
Understanding how to safely move a load as an individual or as part of a team.

Why choose a Manual Handling course?

Covers a range of movement

The Manual Handling course encourages learners to take part in moving objects, bending and lifting safely.

Preventative training

Manual Handling training can prevent injuries at work. It isn’t just about moving the big things, small repetitive movements also play a big part in injury statistics.

Questions that you may be thinking of

Learners are continuously evaluated during the course through a variety of hands-on demonstrations, interactive question and answer sessions, quizzes, and engaging activities like roleplay. These activities are designed to guide and assist learners in gaining the necessary skills and ensure they can apply their knowledge safely within their workplace.