Manual Handling Training

Every year, thousands of workplace injuries occur due to poor manual handling. With our manual handling training online courses, we can help your employees protect themselves from injury and protect your business from severe financial penalties.

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Our manual handling training courses

Our manual handling training courses are designed to give employees a comprehensive overview of how to approach manual handling correctly to minimise the risk of injury and create a safe, compliant workplace. All industries can benefit from completing manual handling training exercises because lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing and pulling are things that almost everyone does, no matter what their line of work.

Courses are suitable for all levels of staff and are CPD Certified, RoSPA Assured and IOSH Approved.

Our online manual handling training covers:

What qualifies as a manual handling task
How to assess and reduce manual handling risks
How to move an object safely
Employee and employer responsibilities
How the spine works
The TILE risk assessment technique
One- and two-person manual handling tasks
Work activities that affect the spine
Areas of the spine at risk and risk assessments for spinal damage
How to achieve good posture

Manual Handling Training for your employees

Put simply, because it is put together by subject matter experts who know their specialisms inside out. The training your employees will get cuts straight to the point and offers practical, actionable insights into the recommended behaviour.

Our training will empower your employees to play an active part in ensuring both their own safety and that of the business.

Why choose our Manual Handling Training?

Our online Manual Handling courses keep your learners engaged with their training and helps them to retain as much information as they possibly can. We utilise a refreshing blend of learning techniques including:

Gamification (challenge and gameplay based)
Microlearning (5 minute, bite sized training courses)

This variety of learning styles helps to counter employees views of mandatory regulatory training being boring and repetitive especially when they have to do it year after year.

The breadth and depth of content that our Customer Service training offers ensure that you can serve your employees fresh content which is visually appealing, engaging and interactive to counter learner fatigue.

Manual handling questions and answers

Who needs manual handling training?

Everyone in the workplace should be required to take manual handling training to help reduce the risk of injury. This includes employers, supervisors, managers, staff, volunteers and site visitors.

Why do staff need manual handling training?

Over a third of all work related injuries are from manual handling. Back injuries are the biggest cause of staff absence in the UK and yet most are completely preventable.

What does manual handling training involve?

Manual handling training involves educating workers in the proper techniques for lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, holding and carrying objects. It covers everything your employees need to know about manoeuvring loads safely.

Is it compulsory to provide manual handling training to my employees?

Manual handling training is a legal requirement in any situation where your staff are required to do any lifting, lowering, pulling or pushing that involves any level of risk. Most work environments require staff to carry out some form of manual handling whether it’s putting boxes on a shelf, painting a wall, gardening, cleaning, writing or typing.

How often do you need to complete manual handling training?

At a minimum, staff should receive training when they first join an organisation, but HSE recommends that training should be refreshed at least once a year.

What do we do differently?

Our Manual Handling Training courses are created by a combination of Subject Matter Experts and Learning Professionals.

Our Instructional Designers create the content and are highly skilled educators who understand how to create experiences that make learning easy, engaging and actually enjoyable!

What we don’t have is people who simply sit and program software to create eLearning.

What we do have is people with a passion for creating engaging, memorable learning experiences that actually help employees to retain information and ultimately help your employees to stay safe in the workplace.

FAQs

How do users take their courses?

Our courses can be taken online but for optimum performance we recommend using them with out intelligent, AI driven Learning Experience Platform- Astute.

Are translated versions of your courses available?

Yes- we offer our courses in 70+ different languages. Many of our courses have been translated by native speakers.