A two-day, in-company course that develops the knowledge and practical skills to carry out manual handling assessments and to assess others' lifting technique.
Manual handling assessor training develops the knowledge and practical skills to carry out manual handling assessments and to assess how others lift and handle loads. KeyOstas delivers it as a two-day in-company course, including a hands-on assessment session.
It is for the people who will assess manual handling for the organisation.
By the end of the two days, every delegate will be able to do the following.
Describe the legal requirements for assessing manual handling risks.
Be aware of the scale of manual handling injury across the UK.
Explain the musculoskeletal problems poor handling causes.
Demonstrate sound base movement and recognise good lifting technique.
Conduct a basic lift under supervision.
Assess others effectively in manual handling and lifting technique.
Carry out risk assessments and manual handling assessments of a task.
Carry out a practical workplace assessment and review the findings.
Two days, building from the law and the body to a practical workplace assessment.
Practical and applied, with a hands-on assessment session.
A KeyOstas tutor delivers both days at your premises. It helps to provide typical loads for the practical.
Delegates carry out practical workplace assessments rather than sitting a written exam.
Every delegate receives a KeyOstas certificate of attendance on completion.
KeyOstas runs three manual handling courses, from a grounding for everyone to a full in-house instructor course. Here is how they differ.
requires hazardous handling tasks to be assessed
to train a competent in-house assessor
an assessor judges both
KeyOstas has trained UK workforces in health & safety since
“The training received was some of the best Health & Safety training I have experienced in my 20 years of working in Health & Safety. KeyOstas are always happy to help and work out solutions for us.”
Four decades of practical, in-company health & safety training.
Two days at your premises, anywhere in the UK, around your working pattern.
The practical assessment uses your own workplace and typical loads.
Delegates leave able to judge and correct how people actually lift.
Four decades of training UK workforces with practical instruction, not generic e-learning.
Cover manual handling at every level.
The half-day grounding in safe lifting for everyone who handles loads.
View the course →The three-day course for training your own in-house manual handling instructors.
View the course →The broader workplace risk-assessment skills behind a handling assessment.
View the course →Tell us how many assessors you would like to train and the handling tasks they will assess, and we will put together a quote for the two-day course.
