Course overview
What this course covers
Learn how lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling tasks can cause injury and how risk can be reduced by avoiding handling, redesigning tasks and using handling aids.
This course explains common causes of musculoskeletal injury and shows how task, individual, load and environment factors affect manual handling risk.
Who Should Attend
Suitable for employees, supervisors, team leaders, managers, safety representatives and contractors who need clear online awareness training for common workplace safety duties and day-to-day risk control.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognise common manual handling risk factors
- Apply TILE thinking before moving a load
- Understand when to use handling aids or team handling
- Know why posture alone is not enough if the task is poorly designed
- Report unsuitable loads, poor routes or early signs of discomfort
Course Content
- Manual handling injuries
- Avoiding unnecessary handling
- Task, Individual, Load and Environment
- Mechanical aids and trolleys
- Route planning
- Team handling
- Good handling principles
- Pushing and pulling
- Reporting pain, damaged aids or unsafe loads
Course Application Focus
Learners should be able to plan handling tasks, challenge unsafe lifting expectations and use available aids correctly.
Legal / Regulatory Context
Relevant UK context includes the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, which expect employers to avoid hazardous manual handling where reasonably practicable, assess unavoidable handling and reduce risk.