Short Safety Course
Manual Handling Operations Training Course
This Manual Handling Operations Training Course is a one-day classroom course helping staff and personnel understand their legal duties, recognise harmful manual handling and apply safer handling techniques.
Dates
Contact SETA for upcoming dates and availability
Location
SETA Health & Safety Training
Stockport
SK4 1PQ
Price per person
£215 + VAT
1 day
Course duration
In-House available
or Open courses at SETA
location
SETA Certification
outcome
Course overview
Understand safer manual handling at work
The Manual Handling Operations Training Course is a one-day classroom course designed to ensure those responsible for manual handling understand their legal duties under the Manual Handling Regulations.
Learners cover harmful manual handling, common manual handling injuries, risk assessment, safe systems of work, mechanical aids and good handling techniques using the Kinetic Lifting Method relative to the job or task being carried out.
Classroom location
SETA Health & Safety Training Centre
18 Hammond Avenue
South Reddish
Stockport SK4 1PQ
Classroom learning is guided and supported by a class tutor.
In-company delivery
Train your team at your premises
This course can be delivered at company premises anywhere in the UK, subject to numbers. SETA can tailor delivery around your organisation and workforce.
Who is this course for?
For personnel involved in manual handling operations
Personnel responsible for manual handling operations
Employees carrying out duties covered by the regulations
This course is intended for personnel responsible for manual handling operations and those who, during the course of their employment, carry out duties to which the regulations refer.
Course content
What the course covers
01
Introduction and legal duties
General aims and objectives, together with the duties of the employer and the employee under the Manual Handling Regulations.
02
Recognising harmful manual handling
How to recognise harmful manual handling and understand the different types of manual handling injuries.
03
Lever principle and mechanical aids
The Lever Principle, the need for mechanical aids and how mechanical aids can support safer manual handling.
04
Manual handling risk assessment
A scenario-based manual handling risk assessment task, with focus on understanding the risk assessment process.
05
Safe systems and handling techniques
Appropriate safe systems of work and good handling techniques using the Kinetic Lifting Method relative to the job or task being carried out.
06
Think Back video and quiz
The “Think Back” video and quiz included in the course programme.
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Certification
Successful completion of the course test and assessment will result in the issue of a SETA certificate.
Payment and resits
Payment is taken when the course booking is confirmed. Invoice payments must be made within 30 days or before the course starts, whichever is sooner. Examination resits incur an additional fee. All course fees are subject to VAT.
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