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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…. Manual Handling Training: Programme. What do you want today?. To be safe at work To go home without injuries or pain

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Manual Handling Training: Programme

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  1. 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… Manual Handling Training: Programme

  2. 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?

  3. 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 Programme for today

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. Employer’s Duties • Avoid any hazardous manual handling (where possible) • Assess the risk • Minimise the risk as far as is reasonably practicable

  8. 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

  9. Spinal design fault…. • Something is missing ! • Warning system.

  10. How Discs Deteriorate

  11. 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….. Good posture

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