Teamsafe Training

Manual Handling Assessor Training

Designed for all who may be required to conduct manual handling assessments, especially managers and supervisors, the course provides step-by-step guidance on identifying risks, controlling them, and completing the requisite records to comply with the law. It is especially useful in helping to clarify whether a formal assessment is required.

Typical course content - normal duration 5 hours*

Introduction

• 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

• How the back works, how it is harmed
• Other common injuries 

Manual Handling Risk Factors

• Risk factors of the TASK - LOAD - ENVIRONMENT- INDIVIDUAL
• The HSE MAC system for identifying high risk operations

Manual Handling Assessments

• The Law - Manual Handling Regulations 1992 (as amended)
• Components of Manual Handling Assessments
• Role of the Assessor
• Sources of advice
• Documentation & Review

Video - Manual Handling Assessments in Industry

Control measures - ways of reducing risk

• Avoidance
• Mechanisation
• Improving the Task
• Improving the Load
• Improving the Environment
• Protecting the Individual - selection & protective equipment

Safe Handling Techniques

Practical Manual Handling Assessment

• Worked example 1 Group work
• Worked Example 2 Group work

Summary & Questions

* The duration of the course may be varied depending upon the experience of the participants, the nature of their work, and the systems already in place.

To deliver this training to a group of up to 15 staff on your premises, the cost is £410 + vat for the group, inclusive of course handouts and certificates of training. Depending on the location, a travel charge may apply

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