Manual Handling in the Workplace
Your Legal Requirements
Your Responsibilities
The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (13(2)) require that every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate health and safety training.
The Regulations state that training should be provided:
Under the regulations Manual Handling is taken to include the lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying and movement of anything by hand or bodily force.
Manual Handling training should cover:
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Identifying manual handling risks and knowing how injuries can happen.
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Guidance in good manual handling technique.
- Advice on how mechanical aids can help.
All companies need training.
Whatever the type or size of your company all your employees should have Manual Handling training. Manual Handling in the Workplace has been designed to be used by all members of staff within an organisation in order to increase safety and aid compliance with workplace regulations.
This training programme ensures that your staff understand how to prepare for a lift. It shows how the back works and how it can be damaged and it demonstrates safe lifting techniques. Raising awareness of potential risks and hazards will ensure you operate within the law and help to protect your workforce.
It is important to emphasise that the training contained in this programme is invaluable not only in the workplace itself but for general everyday use outside the workplace too. After all if a member of staff injures their back no matter where they are they may need time off work and it may affect their general fitness in the short or long term.
Whatever the type or size of your company all your employees should have Manual Handling Training.
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