About Manual Handling Training
Over a third of 3-day lost time injuries reported to the HSE are as a result of manual handling. The Manual Handling regulations require employers to reduce the risk of injury to the lowest level reasonably practicable. One element to achieving this, is to ensure your staff are adequately trained in good handling techniques.
Clearly the risk of injury from a manual handling task will be increased where workers do not have the information or training necessary to enable them to work safely.
Modern medical and scientific opinion accepts the scale of the problem from manual handling and stresses the importance of taking an ergonomic approach to remove or reduce the risk of manual handling injury. The ergonomic approach looks at manual handling as a whole. It takes into account a range of relevant factors, including the nature of the task, the load, the working environment and individual capability and requires worker participation.
Therefore it is important that when staff are trained that they need to understand how to assess the risks from manual handling not only how to apply safe manual handling techniques.
Results you should expect
Staff need to understand the risk factors connected to manual handling and the types of injuries that can occur. That is where we can help as we provide training to staff in not only the correct manual handling techniques but more importantly how they should assess the risks before undertaking manual handling.
Working with MESH you can be fully assured that your staff will be trained to the highest level to ensure your business is compliant with the manual handling regulations. Importantly your staff will be equipped to identify the necessary protective controls to prevent harm to staff and others when undertaking tasks that involve manual handling.
MESH Consultants have used our extensive experience in health and safety training (including manual handling) to ensure peace of mind for clients in a wide range of industries throughout the UK. Where more complicated manual handling assessments need to be undertaken MESH Consultants can also assist you business.
Featured Case Study
Client: Oil & Gas UK Ltd
Sector: Offshore
We had good feedback on the manual handling and feel that if anything we should have asked more staff to attend it.
Sarah Fisher
Oil and Gas UK
MESH were approached by Oil and Gas UK to undertake manual handling training for their staff based in both the London and Aberdeen offices. The training was tailored to the needs of the groups to be trained and included requirements; to condense the training to half day sessions and to ensure that lifting persons as part of an evacuation was covered.
Feedback from the staff trained was excellent, which we were pleased with given that many of the Aberdeen based staff were ex HSE officers. The company commented that: they had good feedback and feel that if anything we should have asked more staff to attend it.
Your Options
MESH can offer a range of Manual Handling training options to organisations throughout the UK:
1. We can deliver tailored half day and full day training courses to organisations throughout the UK.
2. We can deliver train the trainer manual handling training to your staff to enable you to keep future training in-house and therefore reduce your longer term costs.
What we provide is legislative Manual Handling training compliance, which is a fundamental requirement placeds upon all businesses not matter what size or industry type.
Costs
Costs of training companies in manual handling will vary depending on the the numbers of staff to be trained and the location of the training.
As a guideline, fees for delivering a training course in manual handling starts from as little as £315 for a half day course and £545 for a one day course to develop the required level of competence in staff to meet the individual organisations needs.
We believe our pricing is very competitive but we don't compromise on quality and you can be assured that our training will prove to be a benefit to your business. We would expect you to shop around for quotations but would encourage you to check what level of service is being provided. Ask yourself whether you getting a training course that will make a long-term difference to the health and safety of your staff and your business. If in any doubt, please do contact us without obligation.
Where we work
MESH carry out Manual Handling training for companies in a diverse range of industries throughout the UK.
Please see our featured case study that clearly demonstrates this.
Our Head Office is in Kent, with regional offices located in London, The Home Counties, The Midlands, and The North East.
