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Description
Overview
Safe Manual Handling covers the principles on the provision of a safe workplace as one of the cornerstones that will ensure the health and safety conditions of the workers. This will emphasize the importance of equipping the personnel responsible for managing the health and safety concerns of the workplace. The assessment and elimination of poor manual handling practices as well as the provision of the correct tools for the job in hand are taken up in this course.
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the participants should be able to:
- Understand the reason for safe manual handling.
- Understand how manual handling risk assessments contribute to improving health and safety.
- Understand the principles, types of equipment and testing requirements associated with manual handling safety.
- Be able to apply safe manual handling principles.
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors and staff members identified by their Managers as having sufficient experience and knowledge of the client base to be able to act effectively as moving and handling trainers in the workplace.
Course Outline
Day 1
- An introduction to manual handling
- Manual handling and legal aspects
- Anatomy & Physiology of the back
- Causes of back pain
- Manual handling hazards
- High risk manual handling activities
- Reducing the manual handling risks
- Ergonomics
- Inanimate load handling
Day 2
- Mechanical aids
- Fitness
- Returning back to work
- Moving & Handling Assessments
- Manual Handling Legislation
- Principles of safer Moving & Handling
- Good Handling technique
- Poor Handling technique
- Unsafe systems of work
- Evaluation
- Practical skills
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