The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 requires all businesses in the UK to provide whatever information, instruction, training and supervision is necessary to ensure the health and safety of employees at work. Despite the legal requirement, health and safety training has a bad reputation. Due to training being branded boring by employees, it has been seen primarily as a tick-box exercise rather than an important step in making the workplace safer.
New manual handing training module

Over one third of all work related injuries are from manual handling. The most common are back injuries. Anyone involved in transporting items by their hands or bodily force should be aware of safe manual handling techniques, and the risks involved.
We have just added a new interactive module to our health and safety compliance training.
The manual handling module covers:
- Employers’ responsibilities to keep their staff safe
- Best-practice guidance on lifting, pushing and pulling devices
- How to best push and pull heavy objects on heavy surfaces
- Instances when a detailed risk assessment is required
The module can either be taken as a standalone course or added to our health and safety compliance course.
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