PRACTICAL WORKPLACE ERGONOMICS

(i)    Safe Manual Materials Handling

(ii)  Job Safety Analysis  -  2 days

2 days

This practical on-site course, conducted over two weeks and tried, tested and developed over several years, is designed to assist participants deal with the essential factors important for good manual materials handling practices.  

Participants are encouraged to find alternative means of moving materials - and treating manual handling as the last resort.

The approaches to manual handling covered in the course are consistent with new legislative intent and direction.  The purpose of the course is not just to train a group of workers how to lift "safely", but to develop the participants' knowledge, skills and understanding of the manual handling issue, its problems and solutions - skills and understandings which remain with the organisation long after the training has finished.  

The course emphasises a practical, results-oriented approach to problem identification and solving.  An important outcome of the course is that the organisation will develop a clear picture of the need for any on-going training to other groups of employees.

Course Aims

• understand the nature of workplace manual handling practices (viz lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, wearing, stretching, stooping)

• understand the role and importance of workplace design, job/task design and administrative initiatives in controlling manual handling issues

• recognise the relevance of factors such as posture, excessive reach, rotation, repetition, etc on the manual handling task

• practical assessment of the whole workplace and work flows to identify manual handling practices (good and bad) and propose alternative (remedial) practises

• consider alternative strategies to address the materials handling need and the development of appropriate manual handling practices

• develop a basic understanding of human physiology and anatomy (including structure and function of the spine), biomechanics, anthropometry, working postures, muscles and movement

Moving People  (additional 1 day module for Health Care Institutions)

• implementing a "no manual handling" policy 

• basic principles of patient moving

• special strategies of people movement (special purpose lifts, team lifts, etc)

• particular problems of patient and people movement 

Instructional and Training Techniques (additional 1 day module)

• principles of adult learning

• acquisition of skill

• lesson development and preparation

• on-the-job training and practice (including videotaping)

Who Should Attend

• supervisors and line managers

• other key personnel with an interest in – or responsibility for – OHS 

Duration

• a range of formats are provided, depending on the needs and priorities of the client

• optimally, this is a 2-day course

• a 1-day version is available

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