NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment is for anyone who gets involved with assessing and addressing manual handling risks. It is common for the following roles to have these responsibilities:

• Health and safety professionals
• Workplace champions
• Employee representatives
• Occupational health practitioners.

Ideal for managers, supervisors, team leaders, worker representatives and general health and safety professionals who want to ensure their staff are not put at risk completing manual handling tasks.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling course is perfect for anyone who is responsible for the management of staff who conduct manual handling tasks, it can help you to understand effective manual handling controls, deepen your understanding of manual handling assessment and provide you with the knowledge that you need to keep applying the HSE toolkit to your workplace.

The qualification will help you to:

• Explain the importance of reducing risks associated with manual handling activities
• Understand responsibilities in relation to manual handling
• Explain what manual handling risks are and how they may result in injury
• Demonstrate and practice appropriate manual handling risk assessment technique
• Apply wider elements of risk management for manual handling.

Employers who are looking to put staff onto this course will also gain a number of benefits from the skills that their employees will learn, including using this qualification to build in-house expertise to:

• Protect team members from one of the main causes of musculoskeletal disorders
• Have confidence that the approach adopted to manual handling risk assessment reflects best practice and utilises HSE manual handling tools and templates.

The one-day NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling course is split into three elements:

Element 1 – Principles of manual handling

• Why manual handling should be avoided, the moral, business and legal reasons for assessing and managing it, and common types of injuries that arise.

 Element 2 – Identification of manual handling risk

• Understand risk factors associated with manual handling, the application of HSE’s manual handling assessment tools (MAC and RAPP) and what makes a risk assessment suitable and sufficient.

 Element 3 – Control of risk

• The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling course focuses on the reasons for avoiding manual handling, and includes information on risks, common injuries and how to use the HSE tools and resources.
• How to avoid manual handling risks with the use of mechanical assistance and recognition of good handling techniques.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling course is assessed with an interactive, video-based assessment. Learners will complete an assessment of manual handling using a provided template and video, and use HSE tools to perform an assessment of risk. They will then score risks observed, and propose controls for any factors that have been scored as amber or red.

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment course takes approximately 7 hours of study to complete. This involves 6 hours of taught and 1 hour for the assessment.

• When studying through classroom, in-house, or virtual classroom learning, the course is typically completed in a single day.

This course is supported by a NEBOSH Study Guide, which covers the course syllabus and content in detail.

It is not only helpful for learners studying the qualification, but also an invaluable reference source for those involved in ensuring staff are not put at risk completing manual handling tasks, as well as those who want to confidently identify sensible and proportionate precautions to control these risks.

The book contains practical activities, examples and key terminology definitions. It can be used during a taught course or as a reference once studies are completed. NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment should help managers, supervisors and H&S professionals to understand their responsibilities for manual handling, as well as developing an understanding of manual handling assessment. NEBOSH hopes the book will also become a valuable reference source once the learner is back in the workplace.

The NEBOSH Study Guide is available as both a hardcopy and an e-book for all learners taking the course.

The NEBOSH one day courses are designed to give you an understanding of a single topic, such as manual handling risk assessment. After achieving the Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment, you could move on to other one day courses such as the Incident Investigation, Managing Risks and Risk Assessment at Work, Managing Stress at Work, Environmental Awareness, or the Health and Safety Leadership. They are great bitesize courses to introduce you to each topic, which could then be further specialised in the Certificate or Diploma range.