- Location: Safety Training and Consultants Center P.O.Box 21214 Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
- Duration: 1 Day
Course details
Safe Manual Handling covers the principles on the provision of a safe workplace as one of the cornerstones that will ensure the health and safety conditions of the workers. This will emphasize the importance of equipping the personnel responsible for managing the health and safety concerns of the workplace. The assessment and elimination of poor manual handling practices as well as the provision of the correct tools for the job in hand are taken up in this course
Course Objective
At the completion of the course, the participants are expected to demonstrate how to perform an effective evaluation of the workplace with emphasis on the tasks to be carried out particularly in the prevention and removal of potentially hazardous situations and identifying areas requiring attention.
Assessment
Written Exam
Target Audience
Managers, supervisors and staff members identified by their Managers as having sufficient experience and knowledge of the client base to be able to act effectively as moving and handling trainers in the workplace.
Course Outline
Day 1
- An introduction to manual handling
- Manual handling and legal aspects
- Anatomy & Physiology of the back
- Causes of back pain
- Manual handling hazards
- High risk manual handling activities
- Reducing the manual handling risks
- Ergonomics
- Inanimate load handling
- Mechanical aids
- Fitness
- Returning back to work
- Moving & Handling Assessments
- Manual Handling Legislation
- Principles of safer Moving & Handling
- Good Handling technique
- Poor Handling technique
- Unsafe systems of work
- Evaluation
- Practical skill
Course Location
About Safetry Training & Consultants Center
STC is an internationally accredited vocational training provider and consultation company established in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It has since become the successful training and consultancy company that it is today providing comprehensive training packages backed up by actual hands-on experience, the aim of which is to enable trainees to apply the theories of various health and safety programs into ‘real-life’ practice.
Vision
To be the most preferred Training Solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Mission
It is STC's objective to deliver the best training by expert trainers using continually developed programs of various sectors with a commitment to quality and facilitating customers’ learning needs and to further grow in our association with international academic bodies.
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