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Online Manual Handling Awareness
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£25.00 +VAT per person
Our Manual Handling Awareness Training is designed to help individuals understand the principles of safe manual handling. Ideal for general workplace safety, this online training provides essential knowledge to help minimise risk.
Tasks such as pulling, pushing, and lifting, along with other physical movements, often lead to workplace injuries. This course covers the types of movements that can cause injuries and the importance of performing adequate risk assessments to prevent them.
Employers have a legal duty to follow manual handling regulations to ensure workplace health and safety. Employees also have a responsibility to be aware of safe handling practices, which this course helps them achieve.
- Work towards compliance with UK Health and Safety legislation
- Train online at your own pace with a full audio voiceover
- Translations across multiple languages available
- Assured by RoSPA & Accredited by CPD
- Certificate on successful completion
- Course duration: 30 minutes
- Unlimited resits at no cost
Who is this Manual Handling Awareness Online for?
As a basic awareness course, it is designed for individuals who need to familiarise themselves with safe manual handling techniques. This is particularly useful for those who may occasionally be required to lift or carry objects safely in the workplace.
This includes
- Office workers – lifting boxes, moving office furniture.
- Retail & customer service staff – handling stock or deliveries.
- Managers & supervisors – overseeing manual handling tasks and workplace compliance.
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Course Aim
This online training equips individuals with the essential principles of manual handling, helping them identify risks and follow best practices to create a safer working environment. It also ensures that both employers and employees understand their duties under health and safety regulations.
For those looking for a more in-depth, approach to manual handling, we recommend our Understanding Manual Handling course. This advanced training covers practical techniques, detailed risk assessments, and compliance with legal requirements, making it ideal for individuals who perform manual handling tasks regularly.
Learning Objectives
On completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Name which activities come under the term ‘manual handling’
- Recognise the role of RIDDOR, the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
- List the 5 steps of a risk assessment
- Give the definitions of ‘risk’ and ‘hazard’
- Recognise the responsibilities of employers and employees
- Identify different types of PPE
- Identify the steps required in order to safely lift safely
Course Content
This course is made up of the following modules:
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An Introduction to Manual Handling
This section covers an introduction to Manual Handling and work-related MSD statistics.
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Module 1 - Manual Handling – RIDDOR, Types of Movement and MSDs
This section covers what RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations cover, Different Types of Movement that can cause injury and what Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are and the damage that can arise from improper manual handling.
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Module 2 - Manual Handling Regulations, Risk Assessment of Manual Handling Tasks and Employees Duties.
This section covers assessing the type of manual handling required to complete tasks along with the regulations that cover manual handling. Furthermore, we look at the types of lifting aids that can be used and the duty of the employees and guidance for safe lifting.
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Assessment
On completion of the course lessons and training material an online assessment will automatically unlock. The assessment will contain 15 multiple-choice questions and a mark of 75% or above will be required to pass.
The assessment will be marked instantly and so you will know straight away if you have passed or not. If you don't pass first time there's no need to worry. Unlimited resits at absolutely no additional charge are available so you can retake the assessment again as many times as you need to.
Manual Handling Awareness Certification
Our entire library of training courses is accredited by the CPD Certification Service as adhering to the universally recognised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.
This training course and its content has also been assured by RoSPA, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
Upon passing the online assessment you will have the options to both print and download your Manual Handling Awareness Certificate in PDF format. In addition to this an automated email will also be sent to your chosen email address containing a link to your certificate ensuring you always have access to a copy.
Furthermore, a QR code is displayed on each certificate which when scanned by a smartphone links to our certification database. This allows employers, auditors and local authority inspectors, for example, to establish a certificates validity instantly and at any time.
Available in Multiple Languages
This training course includes machine generated translated content free of charge in the languages listed below:
- Bulgarian, Czech, Hungarian
- Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish
- Portuguese, Romanian, Russian & Slovak
Please note: Course content which is not English may be machine translated and is made available for assistive purposes only. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of any translations.
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