What’s Covered?
- Importance of safe manual handling
- Injuries and ill health caused by incorrect manual handling
- Employee and employer requirements
- Consequences of non-compliance with health and safety requirements
- Manual handling risk assessments
- Personal handling plans
- Personal safety, health and dignity issues
- Unsafe manoeuvres
- Anatomy of the spine and mechanics of movement
- Principles of moving people safely
- Procedures for emergency handling
- Requirements for testing and servicing equipment
- Practice of safe and efficient movement principles
- Using aids and equipment
- Moving a person on their own
- Moving a person as part of a team