Description

Course Overview

Our Manual Handling training is designed to provide the learner with the knowledge and competencies to identify, recognise the need for, and adopt methods to control manual handling risks, and modifying tasks, thereby reducing the frequency of injuries that are of particular concern surrounding the activities of personnel working in the Electrical Supply Industry.

Course Outline

The key areas covered by this course include:

• Occupational Health & Safety Act
• Manual Handling Code of Practice
• Risk Assessment and Control
• Effects of manual handling on the body
• Factors resulting in manual handling injuries
• Preventive back and neck care
• Manual handling techniques
• Control strategies
  • Work organisation
  • Job & task design
• Local manual handling issues