ISW Training provide moving and handling of people training courses in Somerset and throughout the South West of England. Ensuring you or your staff know exactly how to lift and move people safely is extremely important. There needs to be careful consideration involved if a person needs to be manually moved and they need to be handled in a certain way that is in keeping with current manual handling laws and regulations.
We offer a range of manual handling training courses for all types of needs and specifications. Absence from work arising from muscular injury is significantly high in the UK. Our moving and handling training courses in Somerset are designed and adapted to make sure our trainees get the exact information they need, specific to their requirements or job role.
Moving and Handling of People Training Courses
Course Outline:
- Health and Safety at Work 1974
- Manual Handling Regulations 1999
- Duty of care
- Moving and handling assessments
- Basic principles of safer handling
- Company handling policy
- Anatomy
- Unsafe moves
- Practical-
- Working with equipment
- Moving and transferring
- 1 day course
Principles of Manual Handling Training Course
Course outline
- The process of manual handling in the workplace
- Manual handling injuries and the activities which cause them
- Manual handling assessment and control options
- Responsibilities imposed by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations
Manual Handling 4-5 hours: max 12 people, £250 per day, £45 per person
Moving and Handling People 5-6 hours: £250 per day max 12 people, £45 per person
