MANUAL HANDLING

Like driving, manual handling techniques often deteriorate over time, falling victim to bad habits and the desire to just ‘get a job done’. But manual handling is a significant contributor to workplace injuries, with musculoskeletal disorders common in the long-term and accidents from incorrect handling causing breaks, sprains and strains in short. With most employees across all sectors manually handling in some way, the best way for employers to reduce the risk of accident and injury in their workforce is with regular, compulsory, high-quality training.

This training course delivers the necessary skills, knowledge, and understanding of safe manual handling techniques. It is for anyone needing practical and theory-based training and assessment to work safely.

A mix of practical and theory-based exercises and tutorials take learners through safe manual handling techniques and why they are essential. In addition, they’ll participate in practical activities to correctly lift, handle and move, eliminating any bad habits and opportunities for injury.

The course reflects national standards and industry best practices and is fully accredited in line with regulations. In addition, choose to learn with Totally Training, and learners will benefit from our custom-built training facilities and customer-first approach.

Our occupationally and technically-experienced tutors coach learners on this course, completing the session with a question and answer paper and practical assessment to follow. They must pass the assessment to qualify for certification, valid for three years.  

This training is essential for anyone to work safely in any industry. Learners will review legal requirements, ensure safety compliance, and understand procedures, appropriate documentation and classifications.

The learnings will take delegates through:

• Manual Handling Techniques legislation and regulations
• What Manual Handling means to them
• Injury and illness relating to poor lifting and handling techniques 
• Methods of eliminating or reducing the need for Manual Handling operations 
• Mechanical aids to eliminate or reduce manual handling in the workplace 
• Manual Handling risk assessment (TILE/LITE)   
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) 
• Correct lifting and handling techniques - theory and practical 
• Team lifting and handling techniques - theory

At the end of the training, successful learners will:  

• Understand the definition of Manual Handling 
• Know how to eliminate or reduce the need for Manual Handling 
• Show an understanding of the TILE/TILEO risk assessment 
• Outline associated injuries and illnesses due to poor manual handling
• Demonstrate correct lifting procedures 
• How to conduct team lifting operations

On successful completion of the course, delegates receive their certification, valid for three years.  

This Manual Handling Citrus Certification is suitable for anyone, no matter their role or industry sector. 

The training is a half-day session, finishing with a short written assessment and practical exercises.

At Totally Training, quality and support to our learners is priority. Totally Training provide a dedicated service to Our Clients.

Totally Training are a leading provider of health, safety, environmental and technical theory and practical training and assessment services, covering a wide range of industry sectors, working with 100s of organisations to provide quality written and delivered courses. 

Totally Training Tutors and Assessors are fully qualified and occupationally experienced and competent from industry-specific backgrounds to deliver Our qualifications, traveling nationwide to provide necessary support at all times.

Our occupationally experienced manual handling tutors have successfully trained over 10,000 Learners across the manual handling and safe moving and handling training categories. Delivering courses at our nationwide, industry-leading and accredited training centres and offering the very best of training standards and quality assurance. 

We have hundreds of public dates and locations nationally for manual handling training, or can offer dedicated training for specific requirements such as on-site groups. Whatever you need, our training services help bring together the optimum mix of solutions to ensure you can apply the hierarchy of risk control most effectively. 

This course has practical elements, so Learners must inform their trainer if they have any serious health issues, physical problems, special considerations or are taking any medication, which may create difficulties in any training elements. There are no prerequisites for this course, and learners can do so with no previous knowledge.

Your venue will need to comply with manual handling training delivery standards for training held at your location. We will forward the venue criteria to you before the course takes place.

For training held at your location, please ensure that the classroom you make available has a power supply and is a suitable size for the number of delegates attending. In addition, please ensure that the practical area has been risk-assessed, is free from harm, and is ideal for training.

To learn more about this qualification, to book or for any queries, please contact a member of the team by phone at 07763 854 325 or email training@totally.training