The New Year is a great time to kick-start a fresh new training programme. If you are an in-house trainer or a consultant, this is the perfect opportunity, whilst people are in a positive, can-do frame of mind, to introduce refresher training for things like manual...
In our last post we explored the subject of the vital importance of manual handling training and discussed how organisations find it highly beneficial to invest in their own in-house manual handling trainers. As well as saving on the cost and disruption of sending...
There were 31.2 million working days lost due to work-related ill health and non-fatal workplace injuries in 2016-2017, a large proportion of which were related to musculoskeletal disorders which in many cases are connected to poor manual handling. A workforce trained...
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 form important reading for any employer, as does the accompanying Guidance on Regulations, also known as L23. L23 was revised in autumn 2016. Restructured into four parts, the regulations and brief guidance now appear in...
In our last post, we discussed the importance of ensuring evacuation chairs have trained operators who regularly undergo refresher training to make certain there is a competent person on hand at all times to operate the chair in an emergency. We’ve also talked...
In our last post we talked about the importance of correctly undertaken, site-specific manual handling risk assessments and how they can literally save lives by ensuring the people carrying out the tasks in question are adequately informed, trained and supervised. The...
