• Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism." Hubert H Humphrey

  • "It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them." Alfred Adler

  • "Along this tree, from root to crown, ideas flow up…and vetoes down." Peter F Drucker

  • "A mistake is only a mistake if you don't learn from it."

  • "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice Mackenzie Swaim

  • "To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." Bertrand Russell

  • "Keep doing what you've been doing and you will keep getting what you've been getting!" Jackie B Cooper

  • "It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed." Harvey Samuel Firestone

  • "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Peter Drucker

  • "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." Fred Shero

  • "The workplace should primarily be an incubator for the human spirit." Anita Roddick

  • "Aut Viam Invenium Aut Facium" - 'Where there's a will there's a way',

  • "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." Mark Twain

  • "If you don't know where you are going you will probably end up somewhere else." Laurence Peter

  • "We must become the change we want to see." Mahatma Gandhi

  • "The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." William James

  • We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." Anais Nin

  • "Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." Will Rogers

  • "If you don't create your reality, your reality will create you." Lizzie West

  • "Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps." David Lloyd George

  • "One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in." Wayne Gretzky

  • "Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death." Eleanor Roosevelt

  • "The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones."

  • "With every willing pair of hands comes a free brain."

  • "I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it." Andy Rooney

  • "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain

  • "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours." Richard Bach

  • "You have a choice as to whether you are either part of the steam roller or part of the road."

  • "If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." Mark Twain

  • "Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them." Albert Bandura

Manual Handling PDF Print E-mail

Aim of the course

Enables employees to contribute to the development of safer manual handling methods and tasks

Who should attend

Anyone who is required to lift or move objects in the course of their daily work.  Supervisors and managers with responsibility for people undertaking lifting operations

Course content

This qualification introduces candidates to the hazards and risks involved in manual handling and outlines what to expect from a manual handling assessment. It will enable employees to develop safer manual handling techniques in the workplace.
The qualification covers the following topics:

  • The process of manual handling in the workplace
  • Manual handling injuries and the activities which cause them
  • Manual handling assessment and control options
  • Responsibilities imposed by the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
  • Management Regulations 1999
  • Health & Safety 1974

Course duration

½ Day Exam based
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Practical  Assessment
All candidates must do two practical lifts

  • Base Lift ( Lifting From the Floor)
  • Bench Lift ( Lifting from table height)

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