Manual Handling Awareness Course in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire

This Manual Handling Awareness course, delivered from the Acadame HQ and available across the UK, is run by experienced professionals with a solid background in the field. Over the course of a half day, you’ll be guided through how to carry out a personal risk assessment and understand the dangers linked to manual handling tasks. Every course is delivered with consistent care and high standards.

The Manual Handling Awareness course helps employers make sure they and their staff are properly trained in the correct methods and principles of safe manual handling.

This course meets the standards set by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR) and offers straightforward advice on how to manage manual handling safely. Our session includes videos, visual aids, and downloadable materials you can use on the job.

Delivery Method

Delivered in a classroom in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 2LW

Duration

Half-day

How Completing this Manual Handling Course Will Help You:

• Essential Manual Handling Training: Learn the essential techniques and know-how to handle objects safely and avoid injuries, helping to protect both yourself and those around you at work.
• Legal Compliance Assurance: Meet manual handling legal requirements by completing the Manual Handling Awareness Course, reducing legal risks and supporting a safer working environment.
• Risk Reduction Strategies: Learn practical manual handling techniques and how to assess risks to spot and reduce potential dangers linked to lifting, carrying, and moving items.
• Practical Skills Development: Improve your skills in carrying out manual handling tasks safely and effectively with practical training and exercises based on real workplace situations.
• Health and Safety Awareness: Build your understanding of ergonomic principles, musculoskeletal issues, and why proper posture and technique matter in avoiding manual handling injuries.
• Personal Well-being Empowerment: Gain the knowledge and practical skills needed to lower the risk of manual handling injuries, helping to support a safer, healthier working environment for you and your team.

Whether you’re employed or self-employed and work in a managed setting, this Manual Handling course is for you. Particularly if your role involves repeated manual handling tasks.

Course Content

What is Manual Handling?

Define the term manual handling

Manual Handling Tasks

• Differentiate between manual handling and non-manual handling tasks
• List common manual handling tasks within the learner’s work environment

The Spine

• List the key functions of the spine
• List the regions of the spine
• Outline the function of the spinal discs
• Explain the lever principle in relation to manual handling

Manual Handling Injuries

• List common manual handling injuries
• Give example of how different manual handling injuries may occur
• Explain what is meant by the terms prolapsed disc and hernia

Cost of Poor Manual Handling

Outline the costs to businesses and individuals associated with manual handling injuries

The Law

• Outline the requirements of the following:
  • Health and safety at work act
  • Management of health and safety regulations
  • Provision and use of work equipment regulations
  • Lifting operation and lifting equipment regulations
• Outline the consequences for not complying with health and safety legislation

Manual Handling Regulations

• Outline employee’s responsibilities related to the manual handling operations regulations
• Outline employer’s responsibilities under the manual handling operations regulations
• Identify manual handling operations within the work environment
• Identify ways of avoiding manual handling operations

Manual Handling Risk Assessment

• Outline the principles of a risk assessment
• Outline the competencies of a manual handling risk assessor
• List the steps involved in a manual handling risk assessment
• Give examples for each of the main manual handling hazard groups
• Outline the hierarchy of control in relation to a manual handling risk assessment
• Identify control measures for a range of risks
• Outline the principles for recording and reviewing risk assessments

Safe Handling Techniques

Describe safer lifting and movement principles used in manual handling

Manual Handling Equipment

• Identify equipment that can be used to reduce the risk of manual handling injuries
• Describe the principles of testing, servicing and examination of manual handling and lifting equipment

Methods of Assessment

The method of assessment is a one-step journey:

Step 1. Multiple-choice Exam

Assessment will be by multiple-choice question paper at the end of the course. Learners are also expected to actively participate during the course.

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