“Every year in New South Wales, approximately 17,000 people are seriously injured or suffer from illness related to manual handling” – WorkCover NSW 2012

Manual Handling training can be tailored to your company’s specific tasks and needs. Ergobiz trainers will firstly conduct an onsite visit to your workplace to discuss your manual handling hazards and risks and to observe workers performing their usual manual handling tasks. Photos and video will be taken of manual handling tasks being performed. These will be incorporated into the presentation and training session. From the observations made, incorrect techniques will be addressed with recommendations for improvements.

Many injuries can be avoided if correct manual handling techniques are used or tasks are modified to remove continuous repetition, poor posture or a prolonged static work position.

Ergobiz provides general information about how manual handling affects the body as well as basic techniques to lift and move things safely. We address specific issues that you may have in your workplace and include that in our course.

This training assists workers and managers in reducing the risk of injuries specifically related to exposure to hazardous manual tasks in the jobs they undertake.

Topics covered include:

• Introduction
• What is manual handling?
• The mechanics of the spine, shoulders and knees
• How injuries occur
• Identifying risks in manual handling
• Assessing and controlling risk
• SMART lifting technique
• Practical session
• Exercise session