Course Duration: 30+ minutes
Manual Handling In Construction – What Everyone Needs To Know
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Description
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This online Manual Handling in Construction course provides learners with an awareness of the principles behind safe manual handling, and tips for implementing them.
Being injured by handling, lifting or carrying is one of the most significant causes of non-fatal injuries in construction. It accounts for nearly one out of five of the 61,000 injuries in the sector, according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
This course helps employers to meet their legal duty to provide workers on site with adequate training to understand and protect themselves from the hazards they face at work. Most manual handling injuries can be prevented, we just need to implement the right training and controls to do so.
Course Content of Manual Handling In Construction Training
Manual Handling Principles
- Principle 1- How to assess the task and work area
- Principle 2- How to have a broad stable base
- Principle 3- How to avoid bending at the waist
- Principle 4- How to keep the load close to the body
- Principle 5- How to get the load into a correct position
- Principle 6- How to avoid twisting at the waist
- Principle 7- How to split heavy or large loads
- Principle 8- How to secure stacked loads
Practical Tips for Implementing these Principles at Work
- Tip 1 – Making use of mechanical aids
- Tip 2 – Getting help with heavy loads
- Tip 3 – Reducing the need to stretch
- Tip 4 – Looking after the back
- Tip 5 – Keeping hands and feet safe
- Tip 6 – Keeping your workplace tidy
Learning Outcomes
Trainees who complete this online training course will have a greater awareness of:
- Manual handling risks on a construction site
- Common causes of manual handling injuries
- Techniques to conduct manual handling safely
Why Manual Handling in Construction Training is Vital
The common cause of injury while manual handling in the construction industry is the lifting and moving of loads. It is estimated that the associated musculoskeletal disorders accounted for 54% of all ill health in the sector, according to the most recent HSE statistics.
In addition to sprains and strains, many manual handling in construction incidents involves crushing to feet, hands or other areas of the body. A significant number of these injuries lead to permanent damage, effectively stopping the worker from ever working again.
The loss of livelihood in this way, either permanently or for even a short period, is all the more tragic. Because most manual handling injuries can be prevented. It only takes a little time and requires effective health and safety manual handling training.
Benefits of this Training Course
- IIRSM approved
- Enables employees to assess and minimise risk of injury
- Interactive quizzes support retention
- Demonstrates personal safety and welfare is a top priority
- Easily access to content via any device
- Knowledge test demonstrates evidence of compliance
Course Details
| Study length | 30+ minutes |
| Approval body | IIRSM approved |
| Target audience | All staff members – awareness |
| Format | One interactive module with an end of course test |
| Assessment | Online multiple-choice test |
| Certification | Online certificate issued immediately on course completion |
| Course validity duration | 3 years |
Frequently Asked Questions
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 is the main legislation that addresses manual handling. It states that if any workplace involves any manual handling work, each worker who performs this task must undertake proper training to understand the do’s and don’ts of lifting.
Moreover, the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management Regulations 1999 address manual handling in a more general way. They state that employers must identify workplace hazards, such as manual handling, risk assess them and put in place suitable controls to reduce the risk as far as reasonably practicable.
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 defines manual handling as the transporting and supporting a load through lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying, or moving by hand or bodily force.
Safe manual handling is not just determined by minimising the weight being lifted. It must also take into account how the human body is suited to the work, also known as the “ergonomic approach”.
The ergonomic approach in respect to manual handling considers how your physical body is affected by factors, such as:
- Task – e.g. duration & frequency
- Individual capability – e.g. age & strength
- Load – e.g. shape/weight
- Environment – e.g. confined spaces, and number of steps required
Avoiding heavy manual handling at work is not possible. There is a need to minimise the risks in other possible ways, such as altering the work environment or changing the load.
All employers are required by law to avoid manual handling tasks, as far as reasonably practicable, wherever there is the chance of injury. If manual handling cannot be avoided, employers must then reduce the risk of an injury as far as reasonably practicable.
Employers should carry out a risk assessment to identify and evaluate the level of risk involved. Suitable controls should then be put in place to control the risk. Moreover, employers must provide sufficient information about the right manual handling techniques. Proving the manual handling training courses can be effective in this regard.
Human Focus offers the following programmes under the manual handling toolkit:
