The Manual Handling course is intended to provide students with an understanding of how to safely handle loads. It covers practical aspects of lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing and pulling loads. It also provides information on the human spinal system, risk assessment, the legal responsibility of employers to their employees and techniques for the prevention of accidents in the work place.

Skills and knowledge development

• Good Lifting Technique
• Lifting Boxes practical
• Lifting Sacks practical
• Pushing and Pulling practical
• Handling Unusually Shaped Object practical
• Teamwork practical
• Using Lifting Aids
• Guidelines for Manual Handling
• Risk Assessment
• Additional Factors
• The Role of Managers
• In the Event of an Accident