Manual Handling: Lift Smarter, Not Harder
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Avoid, assess and reduce: how to plan a lift, push and pull safely, use your body well, and stop small strains becoming lasting injuries.
- Assign to
- All staff
- Duration
- 35 minutes
- Evidence
- 10-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Explain how handling injuries build up, and what counts as manual handling.
- Apply avoid, assess, reduce, and know who must do what.
- Use TILEO to judge lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling and team handling.
- Use good technique, push back on unsafe pressure and report problems early.
The course
- 01Why it matters
- 02The law
- 03Plan it
- 04Handle well
The decision they practise
In “The last lad just bumped them down”, a face-to-face conversation, learners practise what to say and do when the other person pushes back. The wrong options are things a well-meaning person might genuinely say, and the feedback explains why each one is tempting. Short animations show “Twelve weeks of ‘just one more’”; and “Same drop, lower risk”.
How you know they finished
The 10-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Roll it out with
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 10-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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