MK Fire Training

Moving and Handling Awareness

Designed for: All personnel who require an awareness of their duties in relation to manual handling.

Objectives:

  • To provide staff with an awareness of manual handling activities relative to their workplace
  • To introduce staff to manual handling techniques to safe guard themselves against back injury

Course Content:

  • Functions of the body
  • Causes of injury
  • Factors to consider
  • Assessing the risks
  • Control measures
  • Principles of carrying out manual handling tasks
  • Case studies
  • Group discussions and exercises
  • Course questionnaire, evaluation and close

This course will include group discussions and exercises, finally concluding with a short multi-choice questionnaire.

On completion of the course a certificate will be awarded to each staff. The participating Company are presented with a Corporate Certificate.

Download the course description (PDF).