Course content: Manual Handling Loads
- Understanding the Safe Reasons For Safe Manual Handling: Students will be able to understand potential injuries related to unsafe Manual Handling, Students will understand Employers/Employees responsibilities related to Manual Handling.
- Understanding How Manual Handling Risk Assessments Contribute to Improving Health and Safety: Explain the terms‘hazard and risk in the context of manual handling work..Outline the process for carrying out a manual handling risk assessment. Describe the principle of the risk control hierarchy when applied to manual handling.
- Understand the principles, types of equipment and testing requirements associated with manual handling safety: Describe safe movement principles associated with manual handling.Outline the types of equipment designed to be used for manual handling tasks.Outline the requirements for the testing, servicing and examination of manual handling and lifting equipment.
- Be able to apply safe manual handling principles:
- Demonstrate efficient and safe manual handling principles when:
- applying effort to, or moving a load or object manually on their own;
- when using manual handling aids and equipment;
- when undertaking a manual handling task as part of a team.
- Practical Assessment for Unit 1:
- lifting an object from the floor onto a platform/table at waist height (lift from floor)
- moving an object from a platform/table at waist height to a platform/table at waist height 1.5m apart (short distance move)
- moving an object from a platform/table at waist height to the floor (lower to floor)
- carrying a load over a distance of 5m negotiating a 90° turn (carry a load with turn)
- moving a load on equipment designed to be pushed over a distance of 5m, negotiating a 90° turn (push a load with turn)
- lifting an object from the floor which requires more than one person to lift it (team lift)
- carrying an object which requires more than one person to lift it, over a distance of 5m and negotiting a 90° turn (team carry)
- lowering an object which requires more than one person to lift it from a ‘carry’ position to the floor (team lowering).
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