COMPLIPLUS

Manual Handling

At Compliplus, we are a group of highly skilled and experienced safety consultants who are passionate about health and safety consulting. Our primary goal is to make workplaces safer through innovative solutions for organisations.

GENERIC COURSES

Manual Handling

At Compliplus, we are a group of highly skilled and experienced safety consultants who are passionate about health and safety consulting. Our primary goal is to make workplaces safer through innovative solutions for organisations. Our health & safety processes are designed to complement your existing structures, not create new ones.

The objective of this Manual Handling course is to give trainees an understanding of “safe manual handling” principles and be able to implement the processes and activities required by legislation to remove or reduce risks relating to manual handling in the workplace. Manual Handling is defined as:

“Any transporting or supporting of a load by one or more employees and includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving a load, which, by reason of its characteristics or of unfavourable ergonomic conditions, – it involves risk, in particular the risk of back injury, to employees.”

manual handling courses

MANUAL HANDLING

Course Overview:

MANUAL HANDLING

Who Is the manual handling course for?

Training in safe manual handling techniques should be provided to employees if deemed necessary by their assigned duties. In reality, most employees engage in manual handling to some degree as part of their normal work activities. As an employer you are responsible for
the health and welfare of your employees at work. It makes good business sense to protect your staff from risk of injury and by ensuring staff are trained in manual handling, mitigating potential liability in the case of a manual handling related injury.

manual handling courses

MANUAL HANDLING

Course Module

Course Module LengthPass Rate
  • Why Manual Handling is important
 5 Mins80%
  • Legislation Associated with Manual Handling
 5 Mins80%
  • List Employer & Employee responsibilities and obligations
 10 Mins80%
  • Various components that make up our Musculo-skeletal System which will include the structure of the spine
 10 Mins80%
  • Various injuries associated with manual handling
 10 Mins80%
  • Conduct a Manual Handling Risk Assessment & Safe Working Loads
 10 Mins80%
  • Use of Mechanical Aids
 10 Mins80%
  • List the causes of common back injuries
 5 Mins80%
  • Demonstrate the safe manual handling process:
 15 Mins80%
         a. Lifting a load from the ground and placing onto the ground   
         b. Carrying a load   
         c. Placing a load onto a bench and removing it from a bench   
         d. Pushing and pulling a load   
         e. Lifting a load with more than 1 person   
  • Lifestyle issues relating to manual handling like exercise, nutrition & genetics
 10 Mins80%
  • Practical Assessment
 10 Mins100%

MANUAL HANDLING

Course Module