Duration:
This Manual Handling Train the Trainer course is run over a full day.
Recommended for:
This one-day course is essential if you have just been promoted to a training or coaching role in Manual Handling or you wish to refresh your training skills. This qualification introduces candidates to the hazards and risks involved in manual handling and outlines what to expect from a manual handling assessment.
Course Overview:
This course will enable employees to contribute to the development of safer manual handling methods and tasks in the workplace.
Manual Handling Train the Trainer Course Benefits:
By the end of the Manual Handling Train the Trainer training course participants will be better able to:
- Identify the hazards of manual handling
- Identify the risks involved and controls available
- Identify what to expect from a manual handling assessment
- Understand your own role and responsibilities in relation to training
- Understand appropriate training and learning approaches in a specialist area
- Demonstrate your session planning skills
- Understand how to deliver inclusive sessions that motivate learners
- Understand the use of different assessment methods and the need for record keeping
Course Content:
The Manual Handling Train the Trainer training content is tailored to your organisation. Key content includes:
- Understand the risks associated with their specific lone working role
- Risk assess lone working situations
- Understand the legal aspects of lone working
- Understand the need for risk prevention and being traceable
- Use safety protocols to manage different lone working situations
- Report incidents and near misses