Manual Handling
This course, suitable for staff induction, refresher training, or achieving a recognised manual handling qualification provides a guide to best practice.
Come on, put your back in to it! In most jobs, in almost all sectors, there are elements of manual handling. And with the moving of objects there is often questionable advice from well-meaning friends and colleagues. Injuries because of manual handling equate to over one-third of all workplace injuries. This course provides the knowledge and skills to avoid you becoming a part of that statistic.
This course offers a comprehensive guide to best practice when it comes to manual handling. Ideal as part of a staff induction, as refresher training for existing staff or for those looking to go on to achieve a recognised manual handling qualification.
This course covers the following areas:
- The definition of manual handling
- The LITE stairway to safety
- Safe lifting techniques
- Correcting lifting techniques
- Lifting with more than one person
- Examples of manual handling
Who it's aimed at?:
Ideal for employee inductions, refresher training or anyone who will be involved in manual handling as part of their job role.
The course can also be used as part of the on-programme element of the new apprenticeship standards, supporting knowledge, skills and behaviours apprentices need to effectively integrate into the workplace.
Prerequisites:
No prior knowledge is needed.
Duration:
30 – 40 minutes
How it works:
After purchasing the course learners will be contacted by our Learner Management Team and provided with a username, password and hyperlink to the Awarding Organisation’s Learner Management System along with instructions on accessing the course. The learner account will already be set up and after logging-in, learners will be able access and work their way through the course, along with the scenarios that provide them with real-life context.
Learners are assessed at the end of the course by multiple-choice questions.
Certification:
Learners will receive a Highfield e-learning completion certificate, which is downloadable upon successfully finishing the course
LOCATION
Our e-learning courses are delivered on demand and on-line.
When do they take place
All courses must be taken within 6 months of registration
How it works
After purchasing the course, learners will receive a link to the course by email. Following this link will allow them to access the course directly.
Price
£18.00
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