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Manual Handling for Assessors Workshop

 

 

This workshop will not only equip you with the knowledge on how to undertake risk assessments to avoid, assess and reduce manual handling risks in your organisation it will also allow you to manage the legal risks / costs associated with the risk of injury from manual handling.

 

Many businesses assume that because they are primarily in an office or shop environment that the above does not apply to them, this is a dangerous misconception. There is evidence to support claims that physical injuries, back and spinal pain etc. are caused by continual bad lifting, twisting and stretching and not by single trauma injuries.

 

Manual Handling... No Ifs.  No Buts.  It’s Mandatory.

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Under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 2002, every business has a duty to:

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  • Avoid the need for hazardous manual handling (so far as is reasonably practicable).

  • Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling that can’t be avoided.

  • Reduce the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling (so far as is reasonably practicable).

 

Employees also have duties too; as a guide they should:

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  • Follow appropriate systems of work laid down for their safety.

  • Make proper use of equipment provided for their safety.

  • Co-operate with their employer on health and safety issues to minimise risk.

  • Inform their employer if they identify hazardous handling activities.

  • Take care to ensure that their activities are not hazardous to others.

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Learning Outcomes

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It is a legal requirement to avoid or assess and reduce as far as is reasonably practicable the risk of injury due to manual handling operations.

 

The Workshop will give you an understanding of the legal framework regarding manual handling activities.

 

The Workshop will give you knowledge on how to undertake suitable and sufficient manual handling risk assessments in order to reduce the risk of injury to employees due to manual handling operations.

 

The Workshop will give you an understanding of how to maintain awareness of hazardous manual handling activities in your working environment.

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Who should attend?

 

 

All managers and employees who are appointed to help identify, assess and reduce manual handling risks in your organisation.

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Why should I attend?
Agenda ( Five Hours Duration)

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  • It is a legal requirement for employers to avoid or assess and reduce as far as is reasonably practicable the risk of injury due to manual handling operations.

  • The Workshop will give you an understanding of the legal framework regarding manual handling activities.

  • The Workshop will give you information on how to reduce the risk of injury to yourself due to manual handling operations in your working environment.

  • The Workshop will equip you with the knowledge to help recognise, assess and reduce manual handling risks in your organisation.

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  • Team exercise:  Why must employers and employees take manual handling seriously?

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  • The legal position concerning manual handling operations in the workplace.

    • Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

    • Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

    • Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 as amended in 2002.

    • Duties of employers and employees.

 

  • The key principles of manual handling.

    • Manual handling operation definition.  

    • Manual handling inclusions.  

    • What defines a load?

 

  • Understanding injuries:  

    • Team exercise: What can cause manual handling accidents?

 

  • The structure of the back. 

    • How the back works. 

    • Actions that could lead to damage to the back.

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  • Common types of injuries.

    • Single episode v cumulative.

    • Frequent types of injury.

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  • Ways of reducing the risk of injury.

    • Indicators of manual handling problems.

 

  • The key principles of good handling techniques: Lifting, Carrying, Pushing, Pulling, Teamwork.

 

  • Demonstration of correct manual handling techniques.

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  • The control and reduction of risks: What employers need to do.

 

  • Risk assessment: Initial manual handling risk assessment filter & 5 Steps to a risk assessment.

 

  • Ergonomic approach: Team exercise: Using the ergonomics approach delegates are asked to list the factors they need to consider that affect the manual handling operations in their workplace.

    • The Task

    • The capabilities of the Individual

    • The Load

    • The Environment

    • Need for handling aids and equipment

    • The work organisation

    • The need for appropriate personal protective equipment

 

  • Practical element:  Delegates are able to demonstrate their understanding of correct lifting and carrying techniques.

 

  • The Manual Handling Assessors Course will include:

    • Duties and responsibilities of Assessors.

    • Manual Handling Assessment Chart (MAC)

    • Delegates are shown how to use the HSE manual handling risk assessment tool which the HSE consider to be suitable and sufficient to assess the risks of simple manual handling activities.

 

  • Team exercise: Delegates watch a DVD of actual manual handling operations in the workplace and assess the risk factors using the MAC risk assessment tool.

 

  • Full Manual Handling Risk Assessment

    • Delegates will be shown how to undertake a full, comprehensive risk assessment for hazardous manual handling activities that are unavoidable.  This can involve how to fill in the organisation’s own manual handling risk assessment form if it already has one.

 

 

All delegates will receive a workbook which includes current up to date HSE information, a HSE MAC book and a certificate of attendance.

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