Online course
Manual handling
Why lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling cause so many injuries, how to assess handling tasks with TILE and HSE's tools, how to reduce the risk, and how to handle loads well.
- 4units
- 12lessons
- 2.5 hoursto complete
- 3 yearssuggested refresher
Included with every paid plan, from £79 a year.
What the course covers
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Manual handling and your body
What manual handling is, how it injures the body, what the law requires, and why early symptoms matter.
- What manual handling is and why it hurts
- The law: avoid, assess, reduce
- Common injuries and early warning signs
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Assessing manual handling
How to assess handling with TILE, how to use HSE's guideline weights as a filter, and when to use the MAC, RAPP and ART tools.
- TILE: task, individual, load, environment
- Guideline weights and when to look closer
- MAC, RAPP and ART, with a worked example
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Reducing the risk
How to avoid handling altogether, choose handling aids, and redesign the task, the load and the workplace, including handling people.
- Avoiding handling and using handling aids
- Changing the task, the load and the workplace
- Moving and handling people
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Handling safely
Good lifting technique, safer pushing, pulling and carrying, and the training and health measures that keep people well.
- Good lifting technique
- Pushing, pulling and carrying
- Training, fitness and staying well
Assessment and certificate
- A short quiz after each unit, with the reason for every answer.
- A final assessment of 20 questions; the pass mark is 70%.
- Pass it on a paid plan for a certificate of completion with a QR code anyone can check.
This is online awareness training, not an accredited qualification. It doesn't on its own show someone is competent for a task. Awareness course: hands-on practice, and training on the specific loads and handling aids used at work, are also needed.