Manual Handling Training Bendigo
Workplace Manual Handling Training Bendigo
Our manual handling training sessions are practical, interactive and tailored to address the specific manual handling risks that your employees experience in their day-to-day work duties.
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Delivered by a qualified and experienced Workplace Physiotherapist, each manual handling training sessions covers the following three components:
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The first component is injury prevention principles. This teaches your employees how injuries develop and what physical signs to look out for in the body that may indicate an injury is about to occur. Understanding this is absolutely critical to injury prevention.
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The second component is manual handling risk identification and assessment. The focus of this section of the training session is to teach your employees how to identify manual handling risks before they perform the manual task. Identifying manual handling risks before they try to perform the manual task ensures your employees have consciously thought about the task before performing it and allows for best practice manual handling techniques to be implemented.
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The third component of the session is task specific manual handling technique training. During this part of the session, we will go through the specific manual tasks that your staff perform during their workplace duties, so that they can learn and understand the most efficient and safest way to perform the manual tasks that are relevant to them.
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Training Content
The following topics are covered during manual handling training sessions:
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How manual handling injuries typically occur in the workplace.
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Injury prevention principles, teaching your employees what physical signs and symptoms to look out for that may indicate an injury is about to occur.
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Manual handling risk assessment and identification.
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Practical training of key manual handling techniques, including - lifting, squatting, twisting and rotation, carrying, pushing, pulling, team lifting and carrying.
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Practical training of key postures to help prevent manual handling injuries and postural tips to make manual tasks easier and safer.
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Workshop / discussion regarding the specific manual handling tasks that your employees perform.
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Workshop / discussion of risk mitigation and risk elimination for the manual tasks performed by employees.
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Q and A to answer any further questions related to manual handling tasks.
​Course Duration
The average manual handling training session runs for 2 - 3 hours. However, we can tailor the length of the session to suit the time that you have available, as well as factoring in the complexity of manual tasks performed by your staff.
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Trainer Qualifications
Our manual handling training sessions are delivered by a qualified and experienced Workplace Physiotherapist with 12 years experience specialising in workplace injury prevention.
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Industries
We have experience delivering manual handling training to a variety of industries, including - healthcare, nursing, aged care, manufacturing, factory work, gardening and maintenance, council workers, offices, couriers and distribution.
Training Location
All manual handling training sessions onsite at your workplace.
Certification
You will receive a certificate from at the competition of the training session, listing all participants and confirming their participation and competency in manual handling.