Manual Handling for Leaders

Lead safe manual handling: the law, hazards and risk, designing out risk, safe techniques, and coaching, observing and signing off your team on the floor.

7 chapters38 lessonsValid for 24 months

Manual handling for team leaders and supervisors. It covers what manual handling is and the law, hazards and risk and how the Act connects, identifying and describing risks, the plan-do-check-act cycle and calculating and designing out risk, warm-ups, safe techniques with and without mechanical aids, and leading safe handling on the floor through coaching, observation and sign-off, incident response and records. Knowledge checks run throughout.

What the course covers

  1. Introduction to Manual Handling7 lessons
  2. Hazards & Risks5 lessons
  3. Identifying Manual Handling Hazards & Risks9 lessons
  4. Stretches for Manual Handling3 lessons
  5. Safe Manual Handling Techniques with Mechanical Aids6 lessons
  6. Safe Manual Handling Techniques without Mechanical Aids3 lessons
  7. Leading Safe Handling on the Floor5 lessons