For children, correct lifting and carrying comes naturally. It’s only as we get older and become lazy that we begin to adopt unnatural and potentially injurious lifting and carrying techniques. This safety short gives you a quick guide on how to lift and carry objects correctly.

RUNNING TIME: 1 Minute

Manual handling contributes directly to a significant percentage of work-related accidents and injuries. This safety short covers some important questions to consider before manual handling takes place.

RUNNING TIME: 3 Minutes

This program has been produced to inform and educate on the safety issues that exist in the office environment. It looks at the common and often overlooked hazards that could exist in an average office, and how these hazards can be recognised and controlled to reduce the risks to individuals working in offices.

The program provides:

• An understanding that although the typical office doesn’t contain the obvious life-threatening hazards of some work environments, the hazards that do exist in the office can nonetheless cause real damage.
• An awareness of the different kinds of hazard that exist in the office, such as slip, trip and fall hazards, manual handling hazards, fire hazards and electrical hazards.
• An understanding of the principles behind workstation ergonomics, and how these principles can be used to avoid injuries and protect health.
• Knowledge of the correct steps to be taken to avoid accidents and injuries in the office environment, such as good housekeeping, correct lifting and carrying, safe use of electricity, and fire prevention and fire fighting methods.
• A heightened awareness of the issue of workplace safety when applied specifically to the office situation.

It’s easy to consider the office a perfectly safe work environment, and forget about the hazards that can exist. Just because you work in an office, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be concerned for your own health and safety, and that of your colleagues.

DURATION: 12 Minutes

Material handling occurs in one way or another in every department of every business on every working day - it is not surprising that accidents and injuries resulting from incorrect manual handling techniques comprise the largest group of occupational hazards that result in lost time.

This program covers the following:

• Anatomy and physiology of the neck and back
• Types of injuries - muscle-ligament and disc
• Steps to safe lifting
• Team lifting
• Physical characteristics of loads
• Working conditions
• Personal limitations of personnel involved in manual handling tasks

It is important to understand that of all the manual handling activities that put people at risk, lifting and carrying of objects accounts for 75% of all manual handling accidents and injuries.

The principles of correct lifting and carrying must therefore be an important part of any manual handling training program.

This program has been produced with the general workforce in mind, however, because the principles remain unchanged, regardless of the location, it is a program suitable for a wide audience.

RUNNING TIME: 13 Minutes

What is manual handling?

Simply, manual handling is the movement of items by human energy.

Manual handling includes lifting, holding, pushing, pulling, shifting and lowering.  In fact, any form of human exertion could be included – with or without the use of mechanical aids.

This program covers:

• Detailed description of manual handling
• The problems and how injuries are caused
• The types of injuries
•  Steps to deal with manual handling

Hierarchy of Control Measures

The steps to deal with manual handling can often be addressed by following through a series of questions.  This process, the hierarchy of control measures asks the following:

• Must the load be moved?
• Must it be lifted?
• Can it be moved mechanically?
• Can the load be reduced?
• Can assistance be gained?
• Is the load too heavy to safely lift?

Manual handling contributes directly to a significant percentage of work related accidents and injuries.  Manual handling is an issue that must be addressed as an ongoing subject in the workplace.

RUNNING TIME: 12 Minutes

Working in a warehouse can present a number of hazards, which can potentially result in serious workplace injury. Adhering to good safety practices and procedures is crucial in ensuring the warehouse remains a safe environment and risks are minimised.

This programme examines the various hazards that exist in a warehouse and how best to avoid them.

Topics included in the programme:

• Warehouse Hazards
• Warehouse Injury Prevention

Adherence to thoroughly considered policy and procedures, can play a large part in preventing accidents and injuries.

RUNNING TIME: 9 Minutes

Accidents and injuries resulting from incorrect manual handling techniques comprise the largest group of occupational hazards that result in lost time. This safety short gives you a quick overview of correct lifting and carrying technique.

RUNNING TIME: 4 Minutes