People Moving & Handling Risk Assessment
Osteopaths for Industry People Moving & Handling Risk Assessments form the bedrock of your organisation’s injury risk management strategy.
All of our People Moving & Handling Risk Assessment and Training courses are customised to suit your organisations specific working environment, and the Manual Handling activities that you conduct. Our experts first review your current Moving & Handling Risk Assessments and Manual Handling Policy and then develop a specific course to train your colleagues in the most effective way possible.
This method of providing customised Moving & Handling Training at your site, combined with the clinical expertise that underpins the training content, make our courses the most effective at reducing injuries.
Our Moving & Handling Risk Assessors will conduct a comprehensive assessment of your workplace, working practices and evaluate your current risk management strategy.This may help to protect your workforce, improve productivity & provide regulatory compliance.
Allow our expert Moving & Handling Instructors to train & certify your staff members to be able to conduct their own in-house risk assessments.We train several hundred new Manual Handling Instructors and Risk Assessors every year, so you’re in safe hands.
Why not bring in one of our expert trainers to provide refresher training to your in-house Moving & Handling Risk Assessors?Refresher training should be conducted regularly in order to retain best-practice technique, stay up-to-date with regulations and ensure full HSE compliance.
Our in-person People Moving & Handling Risk Assessor courses…
Our training portfolio includes an extensive range of Moving & Handling practical skills and risk assessment training courses. Here are our most popular ‘in person’ Risk Assessor/Trainer courses. We can tailor the length and content of courses to meet your exact needs.
2 Day Moving & Handling Risk Assessor Course
(Up to 10 delegates)
- Introduction, anatomy, top-heavy movement, dynamic lifting & handling, cumulative trauma, pushing & pulling theory, awkward loads, practical activities, Q&A session.
1 Day Moving & Handling Risk Assessor Course
(Up to 5 delegates)
- Introduction, anatomy, top-heavy movement, dynamic lifting & handling, cumulative trauma, pushing & pulling theory, awkward loads, practical activities, Q&A session.
1 Day Moving & Handling Risk Assessor Refresher Course
(Up to 10 delegates)
- Refresher introduction, anatomy, top-heavy movement, dynamic lifting & handling, cumulative trauma, pushing & pulling theory, awkward loads, practical activities, Q&A session.
On-Site Workplace & Risk Management Assessments
- If you have a member of staff that is injured our experts can assess their ability to perform their job and suggest alternative duties where necessary. Includes full assessment and recommendation report.
- If you have a specific work process, or a patient that has specific handling needs, our experts can assess the situation and provide recommended solutions. Includes full assessment and recommendation report.
These courses can be scheduled at any time for 3 or more delegates (subject to our trainer availability). Please contact us for your tailored quotation specific to your requirements.
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.
Free Lifting Advice Cards
We can provide several cards for each delegate free of charge. If a larger amount was required then these can be ordered, along with other support products that we provide.
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.
Online Manual Handling Tutorials
Your organisation will have free access to some of our online training tutorials and educational videos, featuring our expert trainers and qualified Osteopaths. The videos cover topics such as Spinal Anatomy, Cumulative Strain and generalist Lifting & Handling best-practice advice and tutorials.
When we looked for a company who provided a “Risk Assessor” course for manual handling we approached Osteopaths for Industry. Their approach was refreshing; they came along and studied what the hazards and risks of our particular industry were, then tailored their programme to fit the delegates in the classroom.East Sussex Council delegate
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