Manual Handling

This course is designed to provide you with essential knowledge and practical skills in manual handling. By completing the course, you will learn to define and apply key manual handling principles, understand relevant legislation and your responsibilities, and identify ways to prevent injuries. You will gain practical experience in carrying out risk assessments, recognising hazards in different environments, and following safe procedures before lifting or moving loads. The course will also cover the importance of accident reporting and investigations, ensuring you are prepared to maintain a safe and compliant workplace.

During this course, you will learn to define and apply essential manual handling principles and gain an understanding of relevant legislation and your responsibilities. You will develop the skills to identify and prevent manual handling injuries, carry out practical risk assessments, and recognise hazards in different environments and with various loads. The course will also teach you the procedures to follow before lifting or moving a load and the importance of accident reporting and investigations to maintain a safe workplace.

This first module covers what manual handling is and how it might apply to your specific daily duties. It will also communicate the underlying legislation and its purpose in ensuring proper manual handling practices in the workplace.

This module will help learners to remain safe by identifying the types of injuries caused by incorrect manual handling procedures and will present methods to incorporate during daily handling duties, which help to avoid these unnecessary injuries and incidents.

This module will provide a simple approach to carrying out a practical risk assessment and will enable learners to explain why accidents must be reported, who should report them, and why accidents require an investigation.

Module four will allow learners to identify specific and common risks involved with manual handling by examining the load and environment in which the lifting is to take place.

This module explains the proper procedures to be carried out when lifting or moving loads and how to avoid unnecessary injury and incidents.

Manual Handling

What you'll learn

Course content

Module One: Manual Handling Definition and Legislation

Module Two: Injuries Caused by Incorrect Manual Handling

Module Three: Risk Assessments and Reporting Procedures

Module Four: Risk Factors in the Workplace

Module Five: Lifting & Moving Best Practice