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  • Hazards and Controls Associated with Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement - Health and Safety 8

    This course will help you to identify the hazards from manual handling and repetitive physical activities and ways of controlling risks from manual handling and ergonomic risks.


    Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement

     COM-036
     UK
     e-Learning
     Role: Engineer, Laboratory Technician, Manager/Senior Manager, Operator, Supervisor, Technician
     Compliance
     Sector: Chemicals, Composites, Downstream Petroleum, Explosives, Industrial Biotechnology, Medical Biotechnology, Medical Devices, Nuclear, Pharmaceuticals, Polymers, Signmaking
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    This Course is Aimed at

    Anyone who needs to understand the principles of health and safety as part of their job. The typical people who would benefit from this course include: Team leaders and supervisors, HR professionals, facilities managers, those working with young people in a training environment.

    Overview

    This course is a stand-alone elearning module and forms part of a 10 module set that make up the Health and Safety at Work Suite. It will help you to identify the hazards from manual handling and repetitive physical activities and ways of controlling risks from manual handling and ergonomic risks.


    The modules are:

    Health and Safety 1 - Foundations of Health and Safety

    Health and Safety 2 - Responsibility for Health and Safety

    Health and Safety 3 - Health and Safety Risk Assessment and Control

    Health and Safety 4 - Hazards and Controls Associated with the Work Equipment

    Health and Safety 5 - Transport Safety

    Health and Safety 6 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Working with Electricity

    Health and Safety 7 - Fire Safety

    Health and Safety 8 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Manual Handling and Repetitive Movement 

    Health and Safety 9 - Hazards and Controls Associated with Hazardous Substances   

    Health and Safety 10 - Hazards and Controls Associated with the Working Environment

    Programme Content and Key Areas

    Hazards from manual handling and repetitive tasks:

    • The scope of manual handling and repetitive physical activities
      • Common activities involving manual handling and/or repetitive physical activities
      • Common injuries
    • Factors affecting the risk of injury: i.e. task, load/force, working environment, individual


    Control measures:

    • The means of avoiding or minimising the risks from manual handling with reference to the task, load, working environment, individual
    • The means of avoiding or minimising the risks from repetitive activities with reference to the task, force, worker and environment

    Learning Outcomes

    On completion of this module, participants should be able to demonstrate understanding of the content through the application of knowledge to familiar and unfamiliar situations. In particular they should be able to:

    • Identify the hazards from manual handling and repetitive physical activities
    • Identify ways of controlling risks from manual handling and ergonomic risks


    Technical Requirements

    CategorySpecification
    KreateIT version4.9
    Minimum screen resolution1024x768
    Supported operating systemsWindows XP, Vista and Windows 7,OSx10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)
    Supported Windows Browsers on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7IE 7, 8, 9
    Chrome 17.0
    Firefox 11
    Safari 5.1.2
    Supported Browsers on Mac OS x 10.6.8. (Snow Leopard) onlyFirefox 11
    Safari 5.1.2
    Adobe FlashVersion 8 and upwards
    Other software requirementsAdobe Acrobat Reader
    Browser set up requirementsBrowsers need to be set up to support JavaScriptand have plug-ins enabled

       

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