Blog Category: Manual Handling Training

Manual Handling Matters: How to Keep Your Team Safe

Manual handling isn’t just lifting boxes, transporting equipment, or working on a production line – if done incorrectly, it can have unforeseen risks that can put your team’s physical health and wellbeing in danger.…

Rosa Smith18 December 2024

Manual Handling

It’s Time to Understand, Manage, and Prevent Manual Handling Injuries

Manual handling injuries and musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) can present cause for concern in almost any workplace setting. However, in this guide to manual handling, we’re giving you all the information you need to know…

Rosa Smith6 November 2024

Manual Handling

All You Need to Know About Manual Handling Risk Assessments

In the workplace, one of your primary responsibilities as an employer is to steer your team clear of operations that come with a high risk of injury. However, when avoidance is not practically feasible,…

Rosa Smith9 October 2024

Manual Handling

Mechanical Assistance, Equipment Maintenance, and Good Handling Techniques: The Keys to Keeping Your Team Safe

As we all know, workplace safety is a non-negotiable in any company, no matter your industry. As employers, you’re legally obliged to perform thorough risk assessments and then implement an all-encompassing safety strategy that…

Rosa Smith11 September 2024

Manual Handling

How to Manage Manual Handling Risks in Your Workplace: The Lowdown

Manual handling is a feature integral to many workplaces, and ensuring the safety of your workforce whilst they handle different loads couldn’t be more important. To guarantee that your workers maintain safe habits when…

Rosa Smith28 August 2024

Manual Handling

Manual Handling Risks: Let’s Talk About the Importance of Managing Different Loads

Manual handling tasks are often carried out day in and day out across a huge variety of roles in many different types of industries. At Osteopaths For Industry, we’ve worked with the likes of…

Rosa Smith3 July 2024

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Mastering Manual Handling: The Task

We all know the important role risk assessments play in protecting our employees and ensuring regulatory compliance, especially when carrying out manual handling activities. So, in this blog post, we’re exploring the factors involved…

Rosa Smith19 June 2024

Manual Handling

Mastering the Art of Safe Handling: Improve Your Team’s Technique

Whether it’s stacking shelves, moving furniture, or lifting boxes, manual handling is a fundamental aspect of many workplace activities, and adopting good handling techniques is crucial for putting a stop to workplace injuries and…

Rosa Smith8 May 2024

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The 5 Most Common Manual Handling Injuries: Causes and Prevention

While there was a decrease in workplace injuries from 2000 to 2020, in the three years since the COVID-19 pandemic, manual handling injuries in the workplace have stopped declining and begun once more to…

Rosa Smith27 March 2024

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

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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

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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

Manual Handling

Manual Handling Matters: How to Keep Your Team Safe

It’s Time to Understand, Manage, and Prevent Manual Handling Injuries

All You Need to Know About Manual Handling Risk Assessments

Mechanical Assistance, Equipment Maintenance, and Good Handling Techniques: The Keys to Keeping Your Team Safe

How to Manage Manual Handling Risks in Your Workplace: The Lowdown

Manual Handling Risks: Let’s Talk About the Importance of Managing Different Loads

Mastering Manual Handling: The Task

Mastering the Art of Safe Handling: Improve Your Team’s Technique

The 5 Most Common Manual Handling Injuries: Causes and Prevention

Safeguarding Our Ageing Workforce’s Musculoskeletal Health

It’s All About The Base!

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

Health and Safety Statistics 2022

Manual Handling – Top 10 Tips infographic

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

Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives

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

Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training

Explain the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’

Personalise Your Training with Anecdotes and Case Studies

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