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This page is intended
to give you information on Manual Handling and how National Training
Services can help you, if you would just like to see our course outlines,
pricing and dates please click the buttons below.
  
What is
Manual Handling?
Why
do we need Manual Handling Training?
What
are the business benefits?
Why
National Training Services?
HSE
M.A.C Tool
What is Manual Handling?
Manual
Handling has a place in every aspect of our lives, whenever one moves an
object, that can be deemed as a Manual Handling operation. Most think of
Manual Handling simply as lifting, this is not the case, the following
definition is from the Manual
Handling Operations Regulations 1992 and states :-
""manual handling
operations" means any transporting or supporting of a load (including the
lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by
hand or by bodily force."
Why do
we need Manual Handling Training?
If you
are an employer or have a responsibility for the welfare of your staff
some form of manual handling instruction or risk assessment is essential
to preventing injury to exposed parties.
There
were 56,748 injuries reported in 2003/4 relating to handling operations.
These are just reported injuries and do not account for those suffered in
the home or by self employed people.
click here
to see source article.
Musculoskeletal disorders
(MSDs) are the most common occupational illness in Great Britain,
affecting 1.1 million people a year. In 1995/96, MSDs cost society £5.7
billion (1995/96 prices).
MSDs affect muscles, joints, tendons and
other parts of the musculoskeletal system.
What are the Business
Benefits?
- Reduced number
of sick days - More than 1/3 of all injury's where over 3
days were taken off work are caused by Manual Handling incidents. As
reported to local authorities and the Health and Safety
Executive.
- 1.1 Million
people suffer from Musculosceletal Disorders each year if your staff are
suffering so is their work! click
here to find out more.
- Legal
Compliance.
- Lower healthcare
costs.
- Improved
Productivity.
- Lower Insurance
premiums and compensation claims.
- Improve Moral.
Why National Training
Services
- Over 8 years experience
in providing safety training to most sectors of industry and commerce
- Training can be
tailored to your exact requirements after a free needs analysis.
- Used by both large
and small organisations, local authorities, Fire and Health Services
and the M.O.D.
- Adept at working
alongside industry sectors such as Distribution, Manufacturing, Construction,
Service Industries, Charities, Transport and SME.
- Health and Safety
Consultants come to us to learn how to effectively deliver Health and
Safety Training.
- We Guarantee our
courses, if you are not satisfied with our training we will re-train
at our cost.
- All Instructors
are given our Instructor Pack which
provides everything you will need to deliver your own courses.
Please click here to send us an e-mail
with any queries you may have or call our team on 01604 472277.
Manual Handling
Assessment Chart (MAC) Tool 
The
MAC tool has been developed by the HSE to help you identify high risk
workplace manual handling activities.
The tool can be used to assess the risks posed by lifting, carrying and
team manual handling activities. It is designed to help you understand,
interpret and categorise the level of risk of the various known risk factors
associated with manual handling activities. The MAC incorporates a numerical
and a colour coding score system to highlight high risk manual handling
tasks . Click here to link to
the Mac Tool.
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