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Manual Handling Awareness training course

Course duration: half day

Are your staff as safe as you think they are?

This manual handling awareness package will appraise your staff of the need to protect themselves during manual handling activity. The course encourages delegates to look for easier, less harmful ways of moving objects or materials.

The course includes how musculoskeletal injuries develop and what the organisation and individuals can do to prevent injuries associated with manual handling.

The course will look at ways that Manual Handling can be avoided or minimised and introduce the delegates to the principles of safer movement patterns

All our Manual Handling training courses include a balance of theory and practical and encompass lifting and handling within a framework of safe or safer movement patterns, focusing on a technique known as "base movement". The techniques used are founded in kinetics and follow the guidance offered by Professors Stephen Pheasant & David Stubbs, professors of Ergonomics with the Robens Institute at the University of Surrey.

We recommend that everyone involved in Manual Handling attend one of our courses.

The ½ day workshop includes

• The Size of the Problem

• Anatomy and Physiology of the Back

• Base Movement

• Practical exercises

On completion of the course the delegates will have sufficient knowledge and understanding of manual handling issues to be able keep themselves safe; they will also recognise their own limitations to the extent that is necessary to seek assistance from work colleagues when lifting and handling.

As with all our courses, our Manual Handling training courses can be tailored to suit organisational requirements.

If your company has internal procedures or systems to promote, these can be complimented with reference to your own systems, which would add credibility to the training and create ownership within the company for the safety effort.

Course tutor

Dave Wilson - to give some background, prior to joining oasys Dave was employed as Team Leader with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA). He is a member the Institute of International Risk & Safety Management (MIIRSM), the Institution of Occupational Safety & Health, & The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD) formerly known as The Institute of Training & Development. 

Dave was responsible for the original development and training of the Manual Handling courses during his period with RoSPA. He is a past Chair of the West Midlands Back Exchange (a charitable group dedicated to the eradication of back pain through education) and has presented this package to clients as diverse as Formula One Management, UNISON, Warwickshire Police Authority, InBev UK, Cadbury Trebor Bassett, the University of Central England School of Radiography; Walsall Community Trust; Poole Community Trust; the NEC; Whitbread Food Logistics, Weymouth College, The Royal Albert Hall, Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, etc.