Manual Handling Assessor

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Manual Handling Assessor Training
Course Outline

Duration 5 hours

 Introduction (20 mins)
                 What is Manual Handling?
                 Why is it important? Leading cause of workplace injuries
                  Immediate & long-term harm - the scale of the problem

Types of injury (15 mins)
                 How the back works, how it is harmed
                 Other common injuries

 Manual Handling Risk Factors (20 mins)
                Risk factors of the:-
           TASK - LOAD - ENVIRONMENT- INDIVIDUAL

 Stretch Break (5 mins)

 Manual Handling Assessments (50 mins)
               The Law - Manual Handling Regulations 1992
               Components of  Manual Handling Assessments
               The MAC system - Benefits & Limitations
               Role of the Assessor
               When is a full Assessment necessary?
               Documentation & Review

 Tea/Coffee Break 15 mins

 Video Manual Handling Assessments in Industry (15 mins)

 Control measures - ways of reducing risk (30 mins)
               Avoidance
               Mechanisation
               Improving the Task
               Improving the Load
               Improving the Environment
               Protecting the Individual - selection & protective equipment

  Safe Lifting Techniques (20 mins)

 Stretch Break 5 mins

 Practical Manual Handling Assessment (90 mins)
             Worked example 1 Group work
             Worked Example 2 Group work

  Summary & Questions (15 mins)

 

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