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Manual Handling with attitude

Overview

Manual handling - often trained, rarely effective!

When correcting poor manual handling technique, nearly everyone knows what they are doing wrong before you tell them! Why? Because lack of knowledge and skills are not the issue, it is all down to attitude.

Who is it for

All Employees. Giving up bad habits is difficult on your own! The more people there are committed to manual handling properly in you workplace the greater the peer pressure and the culture to manual handle properly.

Content

The Develop Training Ltd. approach to manual handling aims to break down the bad habits built up through years of poor manual handling, identifying the reasons why we adopt poor practices.

Having identified the reasons for the poor practices, we aim to remove the barriers both physical and mental to safe manual handling, and identify not only ways to carry out the delegates manual handling tasks correctly, but also to develop ways to ensure they practice these safe working methods so they become habit.

Based around the manual handling tasks facing the delegates in the workplace, elements of the course include:

  • What are poor practices
  • Realising the risk of poor manual handling practices
    • What is the chance of being injured
    • Effects of such injuries
  • Why do we use poor practices?
    • Getting to the root causes of poor behaviour
  • What are the barriers to good manual handling practices
  • Practical solutions to removing the barriers
  • Developing good practices into habit
  • Leading by example
    • Influencing others
    • The power of peer pressure
  • Commitment for the future

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