Understand how lifting and moving tasks can cause injury and how risks can be reduced. This course explains the LITE approach, safer lifting principles and how to recognise poor technique. Examples help learners consider handling tasks at work, including those involving more than one person.
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Manual Handling
Understand how everyday lifting and moving tasks can cause injury and how risks can be reduced.
Course highlights
- Recognising manual handling tasks
- The LITE approach
- Principles of safer lifting
- Recognising unsafe technique
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Course overview, learning outcomes and assessment
Course overview
What you will learn
01
Recognising manual handling tasks
Understand the range of activities that involve manual handling and why everyday lifting and moving tasks can create injury risks.
02
The LITE approach
Learn how the load, individual, task and environment can be considered together when assessing a handling activity.
03
Principles of safer lifting
Explore the lifting principles introduced in the course and how they relate to reducing risk during handling tasks.
04
Recognising unsafe technique
Use examples to identify poor lifting approaches and consider how the handling method could be improved.
05
Handling loads as a team
Understand the additional considerations involved when more than one person lifts or moves the same load.
06
Applying the principles at work
Consider example workplace tasks and how the course's handling principles can inform a safer approach to each situation.
Who is this course for?
Employees who lift, carry or move loads, including new starters and refresher learners.
Course outcome
After successfully completing the required learning and assessment, the learner will receive the course outcome shown below.
- Certificate
- Downloadable Highfield completion certificate after successfully completing the course.
- Assessment
- Online assessment using multiple-choice questions.
- Course recognition
- Accredited by Highfield Qualifications.
Important information
Online knowledge training. Your employer may also need to provide task-specific practical instruction and assess safe handling at work.
Training several people?
Arrange this course for your team.
Tell us how many learners you need to train and when you would like access to begin. We will provide a clear quotation and learner-detail spreadsheet.
- One quotation and invoice
- Each learner receives individual access
- Immediate or scheduled start date