Manual Handling Awareness Training & Education

Training Content
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Our manual handling training sessions are split into two sections - Injury Prevention Fundamentals followed by Task Specific Education.

Injury Prevention & Manual Handling Fundamentals

We start our training sessions by educating and teaching your employees:
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  • ​Discussion and education of key injury principles.
  • Discussion of  manual handling injuries occur, and the different types of manual handling injuries, such as traumatic and accumulative/repetitive injuries.
  • Education regarding the most problematic manual handling postures and body positions.
  • How to mentally and physically prepare the body to perform manual handling tasks easier and safer. 
  • Postural techniques and tips to make manual tasks easier.
  • Techniques to better support and protect the spine when performing manual handling tasks.
  • Education and demonstrations to safely perform the key manual tasks of lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, dragging, twisting, and reaching.

Task Specific Education 

Once we have taught your employees the fundamentals of injury prevention and the key principles of manual handling, we move on to focusing on the specific tasks that your staff perform in their daily workplace duties. 

This includes demonstrations and discussions of the exact tasks that your staff perform at work, so that they can better understand how to implement the injury prevention and manual handling principles that they have just learnt, in their daily workplace duties. ​
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Your Trainer

Jordan Lees is the lead consultant and The Ergonomic Physio and responsible for the delivery of your manual handling training. Jordan has over 10 years experience and is one of the leading authorities on workplace injury prevention in Melbourne, having delivered hundreds of manual handling training sessions and thousands of ergonomic assessments for clients across Victoria. 

​Course Duration

Please allow 1.5hr - 2hr for your training session. 

However, if operational demands mean you need a shorter training session, please contact us so we can advise you of your best option.


Training Location 

Onsite at your workplace.

​We deliver our manual handling training courses in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and surrounding areas. 

Please note - we do not deliver manual handling training for individuals. We only deliver manual handling training for workplaces/organisations.

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Industries

We have experience delivering manual handling training across most industries. Please contact us to confirm that we are experienced in your industry and if we are not, we will recommend someone who is. 


Certification

All participants get a certificate of completion to confirm their participation and competency in manual handling. 

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With the right training, manual handling injuries ARE PREVENTABLE.