Blog Category: Manual Handling Training

Musculoskeletal Health of our Ageing Workforce

Health & Safety Manual Handling Risk Assessment & Management

Safeguarding Our Ageing Workforce’s Musculoskeletal Health

Delving into the relationship between ageing and MSDs, exploring common risk factors and providing practical strategies to mitigate these risks and cultivate a resilient and thriving workforce, no matter the age of your team.

OFI Training Team17 July 2023

Manual Handling People Moving & Handling Training methods Workstation Safety & DSE Training

It’s All About The Base!

“Your feet are one of the most overworked, underappreciated, and undervalued body parts, and they deserve your attention!” Lloyd Williams, MB BS FRCS (Tr&Orth) London-Based, Leading Consultant Specialist Foot and Ankle SurgeonWhen we’re rushing from…

OFI Training Team16 May 2023

Manual Handling Risk Assessment & Management

Why Do We Need Risk Assessments and Practical Skills Training in Manual Handling in the Workplace?

Lifting and manual handling are daily tasks in many workplaces, and it's vital to follow best practices to ensure your employee's safety. This post looks at the importance of having Manual Handling Risk Assessment…

OFI Training Team21 March 2023

Young supervisor with document making note of goods in warehouse

Manual Handling People Moving & Handling Risk Assessment & Management

Health and Safety Statistics 2022

The latest 2021/2022 statistics on work-related health and safety in Great Britain have recently been published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In this blog post we delve into the details.

Steve6 December 2022

Manual Handling

Manual Handling – Top 10 Tips infographic

Join our email newsletter to get more useful resources from OFI. Download our Manual Handling 'Top 10 Tips' infographic and share it with your colleagues or workforce. Download in Abobe PDF format. Download in…

OFI Training Team18 December 2021

Manual Handling Training methods

Don’t take your health for granted – How to avoid upper limb disorders

As human beings, ironically, it is often the body's more vital functions that we take for granted - for example, the beating of our heart, or the movement of our rib cage inflating our…

OFI Training Team20 October 2021

Manual Handling Training methods

Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives

As a trainer in the field of Manual Handling training, it is deceptively easy to reinforce the message that we are simply biological machines that need educating in the 'reality' of basic mechanics. Staff…

OFI Training Team27 February 2021

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Make sure you monitor and evaluate!

It’s all very well updating your training methodologies, but if you’ve got no evaluation process in place you have no idea of what’s working and what isn’t. Make sure you build a robust review…

OFI Training Team15 December 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training

Hands-on practical skills training is an absolute must. Too much spoken information can lead to a lower rate of learning retention. This is why our team of instructors, each a fully qualified osteopath or…

OFI Training Team1 October 2020

Manual Handling trainer, Laurence Jones, with spine

Manual Handling Training methods

Explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’

Have you ever left a training session feeling fuzzy about the connection between how to do a correct procedure, and why it is necessary to do it that way? OFI Manual Handling trainer and…

OFI Training Team15 September 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies

Weaving Anecdotes and real-life Case Studies into our training sessions helps to communicate learning more clearly. That is what we have discovered, over the course of more than 20 years delivering top quality training.…

OFI Training Team1 August 2020

People Moving and Handling delegate assisting elderly patient

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Mix up your training method!

Make your manual handling courses more engaging by refreshing your training methods. Let's face it: The mention of “Manual Handling training” is hardly likely to instil joy in the hearts of your employees. So…

OFI Training Team15 June 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling Trainers – Tailor your course to fit your audience

Make courses more engaging by customising training to suit your delegates. Research has yielded compelling evidence that tailored education to suit differing roles or recipient groups (i.e. management or operatives) is more effective. Tailored…

OFI Training Team14 February 2020

OFI Manual Handling trainer with delegates

Manual Handling Training methods

Advice for Manual Handling trainers – How to make your courses more engaging

Training isn't just important - it is vital! So it's vital that you get your message across. Make 'practical' an important part of your manual handling training courses. As a Manual Handling trainer, you…

OFI Training Team14 January 2020

Manual Handling Training methods

Maintaining Musculoskeletal Awareness with online education tools

Damon Peterson is the Director of Training for Osteopaths For Industry, and a keen believer in the importance of maintaining programmes and initiatives relating to improving awareness in manual handling. "There are many cost…

OFI Training Team29 April 2018

Manual Handling Training methods

Supporting the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign

Osteopaths For Industry are supporting the HSE's Go Home Healthy campaign to ensure employers know the risks of work-related ill health and enable them to do the right thing. Everyone has the right to go home healthy from work.…

OFI Training Team26 January 2018