Manual Handling Train The Trainer For Health Professionals

Learning Objectives:

This course has been designed to walk you through a step by step process of what you should consider incorporating into your manual handling face to face course for the worker who performs manual tasks within the workplace

• What is manual handling and what manual handling training should include

• Workplace and worker duties and consultation requirements

• Defining hazard, risk and risk control levels

• Hazardous manual tasks - a review of how injuries occur

• A review of manual handling techniques, including lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, restraining and grasping

• Manual handling in the office case study examples and strategies