Manual Handling: Injury Prevention

Most jobs, in almost all working environments, involve some type of manual handling. So essentially all workers are at risk of a manual handling injury, no matter how minimal they believe the work to be. This Manual Handling Injury Prevention course not only focuses on the physiology of the musculoskeletal system and shows in detail how and why we can do damage to our spines, but also goes through a step-by-step process of how to prevent manual handling injuries in the workplace. Once the course is completed, you will have learnt common causes of a manual handling injury, how to conduct a manual handling risk assessment and the various risk controls that can be implemented to avoid injury.