Manual Handling - Blended Learning
This Manual Handling Training course teaches you all you need to know about safe manual handling. Being competent in safe carrying and lifting techniques for the workplace is a legal requirement, and this online Manual Handling Course provides everything you need to know.
This course includes lifting techniques, ‘LITE’ and ‘TILE’ and explains the importance of safe manual handling. Correct Manual Handling is so important to your everyday health, especially if you’re regularly lifting.
Learning outcomes
- Learn how to lift safely, using techniques such as 'LITE' and 'TILE'
- Learn how to carry out 'LITE' assessments to reduce the risk of injury
- Learn how to correct bad postural habits and how to work in the 'Power Zone'
This course is made up of 4 sections and a test. You must complete all sections of the course in order to access the test.
- Introduction
- 1. Your Back - 9 mins
- 2. Daily Tasks - 5 mins
- 3. LITE Assessment - 7 mins
- 4. Techniques - 9 mins
- Test 5 mins
SECTION 1
The introduction to our course covers your back – what it’s made up of, how it works, how flexible and strong it is, but also how fragile it can be if it’s not look after. It explains what damage can be done with poor lifting techniques, and it offers an interesting insight into why children naturally lift objects correctly.
SECTION 2
The second section of our Manual Handling Training explains how you can prevent aches, pains and more serious damage by maintaining a healthy back on a daily basis. It covers correct (neutral) postures, working in the Power Zone, and how to successfully break bad postural habits.
SECTION 3
Before you begin any Manual Handling task, you need to complete a LITE assessment to reduce the risk of injury. This section takes you through the four different stages (Load Individual Task Environment) and provides you with additional advice about what to do during these tasks.
SECTION 4
Our fourth and final section provides step-by- step demonstrations on how to carry out various types of lift – from the floor, waist height, and head height; it takes you through a two-stage lift, team lift, and loading a trolley too. This section also covers the three Golden Rules of Manual Handling.
PC or mobile phone required for the theory part.
Manual handling certificate valid for 3 years.
Compliance
It's important that you comply with the law and know the ways in which it affects you and the way you work.
Under The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 Manual Handling is taken to include the lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying and movement of anything by hand or bodily force. The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (13(2)) also require that every employer must ensure that their employees are provided with adequate health and safety training.
Council Directive 90/269/EEC of 29th May 1990 on the minimum health and safety requirements for the manual handling of loads where there is a risk particularly of back injury to workers
Employers must ensure that workers receive proper training and information on how to handle loads correctly, and the risks they might be open to - particularly if these tasks are not performed correctly
Council Directive 90/269/EEC, Article 6, Section 2
