subject: Manual Handling Training [print this page] Every year the Health and Safety Authority (HSA) confirms that lifting heavy or awkward loads manual handling is among the most common causes of workplace injuries, particularly back injuries. The employers responsibility is to help avoid these injuries.
Under Health and Safety legislation, employers must organise work so that manual handling of loads is avoided wherever possible. Where manual handling is unavoidable, the work must be planned, or equipment provided, to reduce the risk to a minimum. Guidelines from the HSA recommend that the most effective way of managing manual handling in the workplace is to develop a Manual Handling Programme and to provide the necessary training in order to reduce the risk of injury.
This OHSS course is designed for all employees involved in manual handling during their working day and will show participants the correct lifting and moving procedures in order to avoid back injury while lifting in the workplace.
