Manual Handling Training: Programme

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Manual Handling Training Programme

• Totally boring legislation
• Yawning
• Coffee
• More dull and dreary stuff

• Yawn wish I was still at home..
• Tea break
• Wish it was 5.00
• Dull stuff over for another year

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What do you want today?

• To be safe at work
• To go home without injuries or pain
• To know how to keep safe at home too
• What to do if I am injured?

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Programme for today

• Legal stuff
• Accident data
• Functional anatomy
• Design fault in your spine
• Safety when seated

• Risk assessment elite principle
• Physics of safer handling
• Lifting inanimate objects

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Manual Handling

• The laws that apply to this subject
• 1. Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974
• 2. Management of Health and Safety at Work
  Regulations 1999.
• 3. Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
• 4. LOLER regulations 1998

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Why is this important?

• In year 2000 50 of U.K. population reported
  low back pain 24 hours at some time during the
  year.
• IN 1990 results were only 33
• 80 of people get 24hr LBP

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How long does it last?

• half had LB pain lasting longer than 4 wks
• 8 million affected
• Older people long term chronic
• Leading uk disability (1.1m)

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Employers Duties

• Avoid any hazardous manual handling (where
  possible)
• Assess the risk
• Minimise the risk as far as is reasonably
  practicable

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Employees Duties

• Follow safe systems of work
• Make full and proper use of equipment provided
• Follow guidance given in training
• Co-operate with management
• Report ALL problems promptly

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Spinal design fault.

• Something is missing !
• Warning system.

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How Discs Deteriorate
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Good posture

• Standing or sitting
• Correct amount of curve in the spine, support low
  back if seated
• No requirement to stoop
• No static positions
• Correct height of work
• Some weight on feet when sitting
• Use footrest if cannot reach floor..