Manual Handling
Training
Backsafe offers manual handling training programs tailored to the specific needs of your business and staff.
Our training covers a range of manual handling techniques and safety tips, including workplace reviews, getting to know your body, damage control, warm ups & stretching and safe lifting techniques.
We run programs onsite in Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, Geelong & Adelaide, or online Australia wide.
Manual Handling Training is essential for any business that operates or involves the lifting and moving of heavy equipment.
In 2024, we will be running online public courses for individual staff in the NDIS, Healthcare, Aged Care & Disability Care Sectors – Learn more here.
Staff Training
Peer to Peer Champion Training
Onsite or Online Training
Manual Handling Resources
Manual Handling Training for Safer Workplaces
Backsafe offers customised manual handling training programs tailored to the specific needs of your business and staff.
Our training sessions, ideal for groups of up to 20 participants, last approximately 100 -120 minutes. These courses are delivered using our ‘edutainment’ approach and underpinned by our key Backsafe learning concepts guaranteeing a high level of engagement and effectiveness.
These programs are key to fostering safer workplace environments through improved manual handling techniques.
Contact us today to schedule a training session or learn more about our tailored training sessions.
Workplace Review
A brief walk-through review of the workplace to assess the variety and intensity of manual handling and mechanical materials handling used on site so as to tailor the training for each client.
Introduction
An introduction to what manual handling is -covering all of the aspects of the legal definitions.
Get to know your body
How the body works and how the spinal column should not be used as a lever when lifting. How the various joints of the body should be used correctly. Explanation of how a musculoskeletal disorder occurs unknowingly as acumulative trauma injury.
Damage Control
How nerve damage occurs and its impact on the body and its functions. How pain is not always an indicator of existing damage. If damage exists how not to make it worse.
Warmups & Stretching
Pre-work and after breaks warm-ups and stretches explained and performed by all.
Lifting Techniques
Lifting techniques selected for frequently used items on the job. Practical drilling of lifting and other manual handling utilising all possible techniques.
Peer to Peer Champions Training
Backsafe Manual Handling Champions is a 4 hour training program and gives participants an overview of the key Backsafe messages and associated manual handling applications. It is not an attempt to have these staff members become trainers – they are more identification specialists with skills to go directly to compliance or controls when they see poor manual handling skills performed by your workforce.
Graduating Manual Handling Champions work with management to build a safe working culture around the physical manual handling on site. We raise the communication skills of graduates to work with their colleagues to engage them in safe manual handling practices rather than only focusing on their education delivery skills.
What we cover
Anatomy of a musculoskeletal Injury
Warm-up and stretching program
Lifting techniques and the 7 Backsafe Don’ts
Backsafe Safety Zone and the 12 Basic Body Movements
How to be an effective Manual Handling Champion
How to create a safe workplaces and safe work practices
Peer to peer coaching through role plays and drills
Manual Handling Train the Trainer
Backsafe Train the Trainer is an advanced training program conducted over two consecutive days. It qualifies and licences the participant to deliver the Backsafe Manual Handling Training Program within your organisation. It is designed for experienced in-house trainers who have the goal to eliminate the risk of work habits causing MSDs in your business. We recommend that the attendees have a Certificate 4 in Workplace Training and Assessment TAE or above.
If the trainer does not have a “formal training qualification” we can conduct an intensive make-up training designed to help these staff understand and improve their capacity to train others. It works a treat!
A Backsafe 1 Manual Handling Training session in full with lots of variations.
Anatomy of a musculo-skeletal injury
Our dramatic delivery of this section of the program not only personally engages the participants but equips them to equally inform and engage their own trainees when they deliver this section of the program.
Warm-up and Stretching
This section demonstrates correct warm-up and stretching techniques and drills participants in how to safely and effectively instruct their future trainees in these activities. This is a key element of the Backsafe manual handling program and contributes to the overall reduction of soft tissue injuries.
Lifting Techniques
This section demonstrates a number of generic and tailored work specific lifting techniques and drills participants in how to safely and effectively instruct their own trainees in their proper use.
Risk Assessment
Being able to identify manual handling hazards is crucial in ensuring tasks are carried out safely. We go through the identification, assessment and control of manual handling risks using our tailored manual handling hierarchy of controls and associated risk identification tools.
Toolbox Talks and tailored induction training tools
This section covers eight different 10-15 minute presentations relating to injury prevention. Each participant is drilled in their content and shown how they can be modified to job specific tasks and/or workplaces. Participants are randomly asked to give an impromptu presentation on one or more of these Toolbox Talks. We also share a manual handling induction training tool to assist with new hire protection.
Resources
All participants receive a training kit that includes 20 x 56 page Backsafe workbooks, 20 x Backsafe Stretch cards and 18 x Backsafe Posters.
Courses for a Safe Work Environment
Backsafes manual handling courses are designed to provide your business and its staff with all the essential skills and knowledge needed to develop a safe work environment.
Too often, we find individuals become complacent at work or merely don’t have the skills or understanding of risks involved, and thus our Manual handling training is perfect to teach your staff the skills and techniques needed to conduct their work safely.
Onsite or Online Training
Onsite training gives our trainers the opportunity to carry out a brief walk-through review of the workplace to assess the variety and intensity of manual handling and mechanical materials handling used on site so as to tailor the training for each client.
Online training gives you the opportunity to involve staff spread around different locations or to join a public session.
Manual Handling Resources
We have developed a range of manual handling resources to help keep the Backsafe messages ever present within an organisation. This includes workbooks, stretch cards, posters, presentations, banners as well as tailored tools to suit specific client needs.