Courses can be completed at Elgin or on your own premises, call for details.

The manual handling of loads has long been recognised as a major source of occupational injury and ill health. Taken together, the advent of the European Directive and the coming to fruition of the HSE’s efforts to develop a satisfactory strategy for manual handling provide the ideal opportunity to tackle this long standing problem.

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations provide a structured approach through which risks can be identified and corrective measures applied, with the aim of bringing about a significant reduction in injury and disablement caused by manual handling in the workplace. Injury and disability may be caused by a one off incident or build up over along period of time.

As an example, one of our daylong courses covers the follow topics:

• Manual Handling Injuries
• The Duties under the Regulations
  • Duties of Employers
  • Duties of Employees
• Employers’ Liability
• Twisting and Stooping
• Six Steps to correct Lifting
  • Manual Handling Principles
  • Correct Position of Feet
  • Straight back
  • Arms and Hands
  • Position of Head
  • Use of Body Weight

Remember, correctly trained and supervised employees can help reduce accidents and your liability should one occur.