Manual handling is any lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling or carrying of a load. The Manual Handling Regulations 1992 requires that the risk is controlled for persons engaged in manual handling. A very high proportion of injuries and ill health resulting in more than 3 days away from work are caused by the handling of loads. More than half of these occurences are sprains and strains and nearly half affect the back. The costs to organisations run into billions of pounds. JRL Solutions Ltd provides a half day course for those engaged in manual handling operations.
The syllabus for this course includes:-
- background of appropriate legislation
- the size of the problem
- how health can be affected by poor technique
- simple body mechanics
- the basic technique
- extending the basic technique
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