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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
Very clear with good basic guidelines
Clearly explained general principles of lifting all loads – not just at work but throughout our daily lives, so including shopping, children, etc. Importance of caring for our backs throughout our lives, and instilling good lifting habits.
this was a good course.
enjoyed this course learning the rights and wrongs of lifting etc.
This is a great course!
I love the fact that you can either listen in or use the transcript. I also like that you have altered the video enough to keep the same information engaging year after year.
Some areas of the learning feel wrong.
A couple of areas feel wrong or overly complex I e team lifting, although I don't disagree with the theory the practice of 3 people calculations the weight if a lift then dividing by 50%? As with 2 person lift. How an individual calculated their own safe lifting weights is too open to over calculations. It would also be worth looking again at the lifting from height. Step should be square on and the combined weight calculated before making the lift.
A helpful reminder
But where was the information about using your pelvic floor to protect your spine? There was one mention of core strength and quite an emphasis on changing bad habits of posture and in lifting, but no follow up. Nothing to remind the audience that general physical fitness and exercise is the best protection against injury. I was particularly bemused by the idea that the best protection is not to engage in manual handling at all! Not sure our jobs would be possible if we followed that advice.
An extremely worthwhile course
A user friendly course that is very easy to follow. By breaking the subject matter down into 36 easy to digest segments the course presenter had no difficulty in retaining my attention. This is a very logical step by step guide to safer manual handling.
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This user gave this course a rating of 5/5 stars
I recommend this course.
Clearly presented, engaging, broken down into small sections and covered all the relevant areas.
Far too long
It should not take more than half an hour to tell people "lift with your knees, hold the weight close to you between your mid-thighs and mid-chest, check your route is clear before setting off and if the object feels too then heavy get someone to help". I did not need to spend the first 15 minutes being told how many bones my spine has or that I probably knew all this instinctively when I was a toddler, and I would have paid far more attention to the important bits if they were not surrounded with so much useless noise and repetition of the same simple points.