Everything you want to ask about Manual Handling training and assessments

Our manual handling courses are highly  interactive and practical. On completion of the training, delegates will know how to lift and move heavy or large objects safely thus avoiding injury. Delegates will also be taught how to carry out a risk assessment of a manual handling task.

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR) require employers to manage the risks to their employees by:

• Avoiding  hazardous manual handling operations so far as is reasonably practicable.
• Making a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk of injury from a hazardous manual handling task that cannot be avoided.
• Reducing the risk of injury from those operations so far as is reasonably practicable by using a mechanical aid (i.e. a sack trolley or hoist). Where this is not reasonably practicable then explore changes to the task, the load and the working environment.

Manual handling injuries caused by handling and lifting are usually musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Musculoskeletal disorders’cover any injury, damage or disorder of the joints or other tissues in the upper/lower limbs or the back. MSDs make up over a third of all work-related injuries and illnessess.

MSD stands for musculoskeletal disorder; the most common injury associated with manual handling tasks.

The acronym TILE stands for:

Task
Individual
Load
Environment

It is used to assess the risk before carrying out a manual handling task.
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TILEO stands for:

Task
Individual
Load
Environment
Other factors

The order of things to assess before carrying out a manual handling task.

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Manual Handling Operations Regulations (MHOR) 1992. These define manual handling as

“…any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force”.

The regulations set out the steps that should be taken before carrying out a manual handling task:

1. Avoid hazardous manual handling tasks where possible.
2. Assess the task if it cannot be avoided.
3. Reduce the risk of injury as far as is reasonably practicable.

” … any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force”.

The load may be an object, person or animal.