Manual Handling

Norris Associates supply manual handling packages to fulfil the requirements of the health and safety executive (HSE). Guidance on European regulation (20269/EEC). Our course combines physiotherapy knowledge with expertise in ergonomics to offer a unique package in back pain prevention. The course offers a dynamic high impact style designed to maintain interest and improve knowledge retention. Employees are individually supervised through a number of common manual handling tasks and a problem solving approach is taken to ensure knowledge retention.

Course Content:
• how your spine works
• healthy and dangerous movements
• common injuries to the spine
• basic principles of manual handling
• practical manual handling techniques
• risk assessment and you
• posture in the office
• spinal exercise
• group problem solving

Our training package lasts for a half day and we also offer a training package for supervisors, enabling them to give our half day course.

Please contact us to see how we can help.