Manual Handling Train the Trainer

 

Training delivered by City and Guilds manual handling train the trainer and qualified physiotherapist. 

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Content: ​

• Assessing individual capabilities

• Human factors. Why personnel continue to lift incorrectly. 

• Principles of safer manual handling. 

• P.P.E. and Equipment. 

• Team lifting. 

• Biomechanics and human physiology. 

• Planning and preparation. Setting Ground Rules. 

• A systematic approach to training. 

• Identifying Needs. 

• Recourse design and creation. 

• Delivery (including learning styles). 

• Assessments of learning. 

• The risks and hazards of handling objects poorly. 

• Injury rates. The scale of the problem in context. 

• Anatomy of the spine. 

• Causation and prevention of common injuries. Typical range of injuries. 

• Regulations affecting Manual Handling 

• Lifting operations and lifting equipment regulations (LOLER) 

• Mechanical lifting alternatives. 

• Assessment of manual handling tasks. 

• Manual handling controls. 

• Manual handling techniques.