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Manual Handling Awareness
Draft Course Outline
Duration 2 hours
Introduction (10 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 (10 mins)
How the back works, how it is harmed
Manual Handling Risk Factors (15 mins)
Risk factors of the TASK
of the LOAD
of the ENVIRONMENT
of the INDIVIDUAL
The Law (15 mins)
Manual Handling Regulations 1992
What to expect from Manual Handling Assessments
Break (10 mins)
Video – Manual Handling in a typical workplace (15 mins)
Control measures – ways of reducing risk (25 mins) Group exercise
Avoidance
Mechanisation
Improving the Task
Improving the Load
Improving the Environment
Protecting the Individual
selection & protective equipment
Safe Lifting Techniques (15 mins)
Practice and demonstrations for volunteers
Summary & Questions (5 mins)
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