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manual handling training from pathways training

The Pathways Training Online Interactive Manual Handling course will help save injuries, time and money. It's simple to use, simple to implement, takes up less of your management time and dramatically reduces staff costs and lost productivity through attendance. By using our online interactive course, you'll save at least 60% of the full cost of a traditional course of this type. And you'll have full control over when your staff take it. Just think - no more time wasted organising a trainer, and trying to get your employees together in the same place at the same time!

Why Manual Handling? The Health & Safety Executive's Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to train their staff and keep records as evidence. An excerpt from the regulations is shown below. If you're unfortunate enough to have a Manual Handling accident, the onus will be on you to prove that your employee had undergone training. It's vital, for the sake of the employee and your company, that you have an effective Manual Handling training regime. This applies whatever sector your business operates in.

Employers should ensure they keep sufficient records to show who has been trained, when the training was carried out and what the content of the course was. Employers should establish a planned training programme to ensure all staff receive basic training, with updates as required. This programme should also cover new starters to try to ensure training takes place either before or as close to starting a new job as possible.
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So what does our course provide? It's an online resource which meets the requirements for Health & Safety Manual Handling training. The following key areas are covered:

Regulations & resposibilities
Effects on the human body
Key factors
Contract measures
Lifting technique

The course is presented in a teach and test style. Each section explains an aspect of Manual Handling, before the candidate is given a series of multiple choice questions to answer, based on the preceeding information. Questions are answered by clicking in the appropriate tick box before continuing. At the end of the course, the candidate's score is calculated, and if they achieved a pass, a certificate is printed as evidence of a satisfactory result.

The course is a quick, efficient and cost-effective way of ensuring that your staff are all trained to the same standard, and provides the evidence necessary to prove that each individual has achieved a pass. For a short demonstration of the course, click here.