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As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling in the workplace. Manual handling means transporting or supporting a load by hand or bodily force. It includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving loads. A load can be an object, person or animal.

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To comply with the manual handling operations regulations 1992 and employer must avoid the need for hazardous manual handling operations whenever possible

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Is between Knees and shoulders.

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Where handling a potentially hazardous load cannot be avoided, the manual handling regulations require employers to consider whether the task can be either automated or mechanised to eliminate the manual aspect of the handling.

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Correct manual handling principles

Assess the task
Plan
Position your feet
Take a secure grip

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Manual handling causes more than one third of all workplace injuries and features in almost everyone's job in almost every sector

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Manual handling is the causes of over a third of injuries in a work place

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Most common manual handling injuries are lower back pain, musculoskeletal disorders

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When manual handling the main activities are: Lifting, pushing, pulling, holding, restraining, throwing and carrying. There are also various different tasks such as: packing, typing, assembling, cleaning and sorting, using hand-tools, operating machinery and equipment

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over a third of all workplace injuries is caused by manual handling

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The manual handling course it aimed at all levels of people as manual handling can come up in everyday life such as lifting and moving stuff about

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An example of manual handling are putting boxes on shelved,painting, gardening , cleaning , writing and typing .
Manual handling injuries include: strains and sprains.

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When manual handling keep a straight back avoiding twisting and bending straight arms

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•Facts
•Industries with the highest rates of injury from manual carrying are courier activities, agricultural and specialised construction activities.

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Manual handling accidents

One in three people get injured at work by manual handling

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Manual handling causes over a third of all workplace injuries

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One third of a workplace injuries are caused by maunual handling

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Cuts, bruises, sprains, tears, small fractures and muscle strain are some of the main injuries caused by manual handling and are due to a person slipping or losing grip.

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1 in 3 accidents at work are caused by manual handling

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1 in 3 accidents at work are caused by manual handling

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Lifting and handling are responsible for 22% of all non-fatal injuries to UK employees.

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IN 2008 43% of workers stated that manual hacking was a bigger hazard than stress, slips or trips.

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Online Manual Handling Course can be done for £12+VAT

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Manual Handling Course Online - RoSPA + CPD - £5.00 to £12 + VAT

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This course can be purchased as a single course, or you can save money by purchasing it for more than one user (multiple courses must be purchased at the same time to receive the discount). Multi-course discounts are shown on this page. You can also save costs by purchasing this course as part of a bundle offer.

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Involveds the use of the human body to lift, lower, fill, empty or carry

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• Nature of the task

• Capabilities of someone performing it

• The characteristic of the load

• Layout of the environment