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Manual Handling
26 articles
Manual Handling, People Moving & Handling, Training Methods, Workstation Safety & DSE Training
Your Feet - It's All About The Base!
Your feet are one of the most overworked, underappreciated, and undervalued body parts, and they deserve your attention!
Manual Handling, People Moving & Handling, Risk Assessment & Management
HSE Health and Safety Statistics 2022
2021/2022 statistics on work-related health and safety in Great Britain published by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Maintaining Musculoskeletal Awareness with online education tools
Maintaining on-going education throughout your workforce is imperative, but how should you go about doing this?
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Supporting the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign
Osteopaths For Industry support the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign to ensure employers know the risks of work-related ill health.
Manual Handling - Top 10 Tips infographic
Download our Manual Handling 'Top 10 Tips' infographic and share it with your colleagues or workforce.
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Don't take your health for granted - How to avoid upper limb disorders
Upper limb disorder may affect the shoulder, elbow, forearm, wrist or hand. Steps to take to avoid upper limb disorders (ULDs) or to prevent them worsening.
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Challenging perspectives, changing perspectives
Challenging perspectives and changing perspectives. How should we train our manual handling delegates effectively?
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.
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Make ‘Practical’ a key component of your training
Hands-on practical skills training is an absolute must. Use mixed training methods in your sessions, striking the balance between verbal & physical instruction.
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Explain the 'why' behind the 'how'
Reinforcing ‘how to do’ something with ‘why it is done this way’ increases the chance of training being retained for longer.
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.
Manual Handling, Training Methods
Advice for Manual Handling trainers – Mix up your training method!
Make your manual handling courses more engaging by refreshing and mixing-up your training methods. Osteopaths For Industry.