Manual Handling (Safetycor Ltd In-House Course)

Summary course information

The aim of this half-day course is to provide delegates with sufficient knowledge, understanding, and practical skills to undertake manual handling tasks in a safe manner.  Course content can be adjusted to suit your company operations.

The price (on application) is charged per course, with a maximum class size of ten.

 Who will benefit from this course?

These courses can be tailored to specific care/residential home and hospital requirements and need to be held on-site using your equipment.

When and where will courses be held?

This course is run strictly on an in-company basis. Therefore, subject to tutor availability, we can make this programme available to organisations at a time to suit them. The venues and refreshments are to be made available by the client.

 Course details

The course programme covers the following main sections:

• Facts, figures and the types of manual handling injuries that occur
• The relevant regulations and legal requirements, in particular the Manual Handling Operations Regulations, 1992.
• The anatomy of the spine and possible injuries
• Weights and loads, biomechanics, and the principles of good handling
• Risk assessments
• Practical manual handling techniques

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