Manual handling training for new and established instructors – delivered at your own site, at one of our public venues, or online.
Manual Handling training for Instructors
When you book a Manual Handling Instructor training course with OFI, you can be sure that we’ll take the time to get to know your organisation, to understand how you do things, and to create a profile of your employees and the manual handling activities that they conduct.
We consider your specific working environment and the manual handling equipment that you have available, as well as review your existing Manual Handling and Risk Assessment polices. This allows us to develop a bespoke programme to train your Manual Handling Instructors in the most effective way possible.
We don’t just want to train effective manual handling instructors for you, we also want to promote a positive cultural change towards health & safety within your organisation. Our training courses provide you with the knowledge and the tools to facilitate these changes and inspire your employees.
Our training portfolio includes a range of Manual Handling Instructor courses, including practical skills and risk assessment. Below are our most popular Instructor courses, but we can tailor the duration and content of courses to meet your exact requirements.
TRAIN-THE-TRAINER AND MANUAL HANDLING INSTRUCTOR TRAINING
AT OUR SITE - SUITABLE FOR INDIVIDUALS OR SMALL GROUPS
Manual Handling Instructor PUBLIC COURSE (Practical Skills & Risk Assessment)
- Online 3 day course, 17th-19th Sept 2025: £695 + VAT per delegate
- Online 2 day REFRESHER course, 18th-19th Sept 2025: £545 + VAT per delegate
Our ‘public’ manual handling instructor courses are available to anyone to book, and are ideal for training 1 to 4 delegates without all the added cost and complexity of arranging ‘on-site’ training at your own workplace.
This ‘public’ online course is limited to 12 delegates. Your OFI instructor will demonstrate practical techniques. Certificates are issued to delegates on the successful completion of the course, and these have a 3-year validity.
AT YOUR SITE
3 day Manual Handling Instructor course (Practical Skills & Risk Assessment)
- Cover the requirements of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992).
- Provide delegates with a broad understanding of functional anatomy and the causes of back pain.
- Equip delegates with sufficient background theory and practical appreciation to carry out basic instruction in manual handling techniques within their organisation.
AT YOUR SITE
2 day Manual Handling Instructor REFRESHER course
- Refreshing the requirements of the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992).
- Provide delegates with a broad understanding of functional anatomy and the causes of back pain.
- Equip delegates with sufficient background theory and practical appreciation to carry out basic instruction in manual handling techniques within their organisation.
AT YOUR SITE
4 day Manual Handling Instructor course (Practical skills, Risk Assessment, and Presentation skills)
- As per the 3-day course above, but with a lot more attention on presentation skills and planning/preparation of your course.
- Explore new ways of presenting and instructing Practical and theory relating to manual handling.
- Address problems experienced by trainers in their manual handling training sessions.
- Assess the trainers practical abilities and solve any practical issues.
AT YOUR SITE
2 day Manual Handling Risk Assessor course (Risk Assessment only)
- A focus on manual handling risk assessment including detailed coverage of the ‘TILE’ risk assessment strategy, and consideration of use of available manual handling assistance tools.
- Use of the HSE risk assessment filter.
- Use of the Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) tool to help identify high-risk workplace manual handling activities.
- Use of the Risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) tool to help you identify high-risk pushing and pulling operations and check the effectiveness of any risk-reduction measures.
- Review of sample ‘assessment checklists’ for the lifting, lowering and carrying of loads, and the pushing and pulling of loads.
Time is set-aside at the end to consolidate what has been taught during the training. Certificates are issued to delegates on the successful completion of the course.
Our “at your site” courses can be scheduled at any time for 3 or more delegates (subject to our trainer availability). Contact us for a tailored quote.
Your trainers will be fully supported throughout their certification period with the following free services:
Expert Help & Advice
Your colleagues have quick access to our experts for advice on any Manual Handling issues they may have. We ensure that queries are answered within a maximum of 24 hours. Queries are submitted by email initially and one of our experts will call back to discuss the issue and help to resolve the problem.
Detailed Course Notes
Our Course Notes provide you with a detailed resource to reference at any time after the course. We are able to fully customise these to bring them in line with your corporate branding, including logos and pictures from your work sites, and to alter the content of the course notes to suit your working practices, processes and equipment in use.
Health & Safety Executive Material
We also provide several relevant documents from the HSE relating to Manual Handling, such as the MAC Tool and information on Manual Handling Aids.
