People Moving & Handling Training for your Employees

Moving and Handling of People training, delivered at your own site, or online. OFI is a leading provider of Moving & Handling of People Training for many leading UK industries and organisations.

Our People Moving and Handling training courses are customised to suit your employees’ specific working environment, the Moving and Handling activities they conduct, and the Moving and Handling equipment and apparatus that they use.

Our experts will review your current Moving and Handling Risk Assessments and Moving and Handling Policy, and then develop a specific course to train your employees in the most effective way possible. We have found that this ‘customised’ approach provides your staff with quality training that stays with them.

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Service Support ManagerRoyal Free London NHS Trust

“Osteopaths For Industry successfully trained a number of our staff, including managers and care assistants to be qualified moving and handling trainers. Feedback has been very positive from all those involved in the training.”

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DelegateUniversity of Essex

“It was expecting just another boring training course, but actually I was pleasantly surprised! – I actually really enjoyed the course and learnt a lot. Thanks!”

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Team LeaderEpping Forest College

“Laurence did a fantastic job providing practical skills refresher training to my team. He also took the time to work through some of the specific issues I've been having. Would recommend for sure.”

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Refuse Handling TeamGuildford Borough Council

“On-site practical manual handling skills training for my refuse collection team. The team were engaged and seemed to really take the training on board - great job.”

Osteopaths For Industry’s training portfolio offers an extensive range of people moving and handling practical skills and risk assessment training courses. Below are our most popular training courses for your employees, but we can tailor the duration and content of courses to meet your exact requirements.

MOVING & HANDLING OF PEOPLE - PRACTICAL SKILLS TRAINING

Overview of course content:

A practical, step-by-step guide to safe technique for the lifting and moving & handling of people. Includes effective and safe lifting, instinct vs. conditioned movement, pushing and pulling, ‘power to your legs’, ‘strength at the core’, team lifts, and awkward 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.

Course objectives:
  • To provide delegates with a broad understanding various dynamic manual handling techniques.
Price and availability:

This course can be scheduled at any time for groups of 3 or more, subject to availability of our trainers.

Please contact us for a tailored quotation, specific to your training requirements.

Our 1-day course is suitable for groups of up to 10 delegates.

Your employees 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 Moving & 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.

Let OFI help you to prevent injury and protect performance!