Manual Handling
Moving And Assisting People

Who’s this course for?

Manual handling injuries are amongst the most common injuries to impact people in the workplace.
Some industries are of a higher risk but any task that involve, “Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling
heavy loads or people, can put workers at risk of serious injury”
To help you and your people avoid these expensive, often long lasting and unnecessary injuries, we
provide manual handling training courses for the workplace. Our courses are designed to raise
awareness of safe manual handling principles and techniques to reduce risk.

Who should attend?

Anyone requiring Manual Handling certification

Course Availability

We can run this course at your venue 

What our syllabus covers

Moving and assisting people (6 hours)
Hierarchy of measures
Anatomy of the spine
Efficient moving principles
Causes and consequences of soft tissue and bone injury
Manual handling risk assessment
Safe lifting techniques
Box and bowler lifts
Assisting from the floor Assisting to stand
Assisting bed/chair/wheelchair

Is there an exam?

Assessment is completed via observation during the course and a multi choice question paper