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Manual Handling Training
This online Manual Handling training teaches you all you need to know about safe Moving and Handling, including lifting techniques, LITE, and why Manual Handling training is so important to your everyday health - more specifically, comprehensive guidance on how to maintain a healthy back. To date, we've had over 400,000 people complete our Manual Handling Training!
Being competent in safe carrying and lifting techniques for the workplace is a legal requirement, and this course provides everything you need to know.
This course looks at safe moving and handling, the 'LITE' technique (Load. Individual. Task. Environment.), and explains why safe workplace lifting is so important to your everyday health.
Poor manual carrying is responsible for more than a third of all workplace accidents reported to the authorities each year. Ensuring good practice helps to reduce on-location accidents and staff absence as a result of an injury.
Our Manual Handling training is for all levels of staff that undertake manual handling operations. If manual handling is not carried out properly it can have significant consequences on your health (musculoskeletal disorders), particularly if you carry out manual handling operations regularly.
Maintaining a healthy back is also vital in enabling you to meet the demands of your everyday responsibilities – at work, at home, and during your leisure time. This training equips you with all the tools you need to protect your back whilst conducting a wide variety of Manual Handling tasks.
Every employee in every company should have effective Manual Handling Training and it doesn’t have to be boring, time-consuming or expensive!
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Key features
- Suitable for all employees, including staff and managers
- Helps you to meet the requirements of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992)
- Can be fully completed in just 35 minutes!
- Features a free online trial period, with bulk discounts available
- CPD accredited & IOSH Approved
- Free trial, demo and bulk discounts available
- Course translations readily available!
Covered in this course
The Manual Handling Training course is broken down into 4 sections.
1) Your back during Manual Handling
The introduction to our course covers your back – what it’s made up of, how it works, how flexible and strong it is, but also how fragile it can be if it’s not look after. It explains what damage can be done with poor lifting techniques, and it offers an interesting insight into why children naturally lift objects correctly.
2) Daily Tasks
The second section of our Manual Handling Training explains how you can prevent aches, pains and more serious damage by maintaining a healthy back on a daily basis. It covers correct (neutral) postures, working in the Power Zone, and how to successfully break bad postural habits.
3) LITE Assessment
Before you begin any Manual Handling task, you need to complete a LITE assessment to reduce the risk of injury. This section takes you through the four different stages (Load Individual Task Environment) and provides you with additional advice about what to do during these tasks.
4) Techniques
Our fourth and final section provides step-by- step demonstrations on how to carry out various types of lift – from the floor, waist height, and head height; it takes you through a two-stage lift, team lift, and loading a trolley too. This section also covers the three Golden Rules of Manual Handling.
Manual Handling Certificate
Each of our courses ends with a multiple choice test to measure your knowledge of the material.
This Online Manual Handling training programme ends with a 20 question multiple choice test with a printable certificate.
As well as printable user certificates, training progress and results are all stored centrally in your LMS (Learning Management System) and can be accessed any time. From there, you can re-print certificates; check and set pass marks and use the system as proof of commitment to ongoing legal compliance.
What does my certificate include?
Your Manual Handling Certificate includes your name, company name (if applicable), name of course taken, pass percentage, date of completion, expiry date and stamps of approval or accreditations by recognised authorities.
Real user reviews
Based on 7,718 real user reviews.
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Simple, straightforward
Simple, straightforward & presenter was engaging
Very well presented course.
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very good
really engaging video - Thank you.
Nicely explained, easy to follow
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Absolutely brilliant!
I thought this was put together very well. The slides were broken up into manageable chunks to be able to retain. Plus it was actually interesting to do.
Small chunks - good visuals and demo's
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Useful, concise and relevant
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Legislations relating to Manual Handling
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work. Take a look at relevant legislation below.
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Under The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 Manual Handling is taken to include the lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying and movement of anything by hand or bodily force. The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (13(2)) also require that every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate health and safety training.
Council Directive 90/269/EEC of 29th May 1990 on the minimum health and safety requirements for the manual handling of loads where there is a risk particularly of back injury to workers
Employers must ensure that workers receive proper training and information on how to handle loads correctly, and the risks they might be open to - particularly if these tasks are not performed correctly
The HSE suggests that, in general, manual handling training should be suitable for the individual, tasks and environment involved. It is important that these courses offer a range of different pieces of advice, including:
- Manual handling risk factors and how injuries can occur;
- How to carry out safe manual handling, including good handling technique;
- Appropriate systems of work for the individual's task and environment;
- Use of mechanical aids;
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.