IOSH Skills in manual handling training

Summary: This 5 day course is a follow on from IOSH manual handling risk assessment course, and helps line managers to deliver appropriate risk based training within their own organisations.

Provider: Human Applications
Location: UK
Duration: 5 days
Knowledge/experience needed: Manual handling risk assessment course required (2 days)
Website: www.humanapps.co.uk
Email: enquiries@humanapps.co.uk

Who should attend and why?
Manual handling training is a line management responsibility. Manual handling trainers may be line managers themselves or may be those appointed to carry out the training on line manager’s behalf. Delegates must be familiar with the handling problems faced by those to be trained and be either experienced trainers or able to speak to groups of staff. The training of in-depth presentation skills are not part of the course. Manual Handling occurs as a part of many work activities and with productivity demands also increasing in many sectors; these jobs hold the potential for musculoskeletal disorders. By its basis in and combination with risk management principles, this course trains delegates to design and deliver effective handling training within their own organisations. It also enables trainers to understand when training may not be a suitable risk control measure. Importantly, the course centers on principles of safe handling rather than on specific handling techniques allowing trainers to adapt their knowledge and training skills to the widest possible variety of handling situations. By having competent in-house trainers with local knowledge of the operations undertaken, organisations will be able to provide training that is relevant to local manual handling risks. Since these trainers will also be able to account for wide variances in day to day operational conditions and changing work patterns, organisations can also ensure a continual capability to modify handling training to meet evolving needs.

What will you learn?

  • a practical understanding of the risk assessment process
  • a practical understanding of where training fits into the risk management programme the ability to develop and deliver training appropriate to the organisation’s risks and needs

Expected outcomes
After the course you will be able to:

  • Demonstrate a knowledge of relevant anatomy, the mechanics of movement and the causes of injury
  • Apply the principles of safe handling to a given operations
  • Deliver appropriate risk based training within their own organisations