Certified Instructor Led Training | Safety Training Ireland Approved & Certified for 3 Years – Training in your Premises!
Under HSA manual handling best practice and to comply with current health and safety legislation under HSA manual handling best practice, staff must be given training in safe manual handling techniques. Our manual handling training course will show your staff how to carry out manual handling tasks correctly and therefore avoid back injuries. By training your staff how to conduct manual handling safely you are complying with your legal requirements. Back injuries caused by incorrect manual handling training techniques are one of the most frequent causes of workers compensation claims.
Course Content
The course focuses on key Manual Handling topics including:
Who Should Attend?
This course is for all staff engaged in manual handling activities during their working day.
According to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007, it requires employers to provide manual handling training within the workplace.
Cost
Certification
Course Content
The course focuses on key Manual Handling topics including:
- Dangers of careless and unskilled methods
- Principles of levers and laws of motion
- Anatomy of the spine and muscular system
- How the body is harmed through incorrect handling techniques
- How to handle loads safely
- Lifting to and from ground level
- Lifting to and from a height
- Pushing
- Pulling
- Lifting (bags, sacks, barrels, where appropriate)
- Other organisation specific lifting tasks
- Competence testing
Who Should Attend?
This course is for all staff engaged in manual handling activities during their working day.
According to the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007, it requires employers to provide manual handling training within the workplace.
Cost
- Public instructor led Manual Handling training in Dublin is €80per person.
- Private instructor led Manual Handling training onsite is €300 per session. With the price broken down, it costs €30 per person (max of 10 people).
- For further information please email [email protected].
Certification
- Basic Manual Handling Certificate approved by Safety Training Ireland.
- The Manual Handling training course is valid for 3 years after which recertification training is required.
