Course Content:

• People handling risk assessment
• People handling principles and techniques
• Planning and design of people handling training programmes
• Delivery of people handling training

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this course participants will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to:

• Explain the people handling risk assessment process
• Describe a range of controls to avoid and reduce the risk of injury
• Apply the main principles of manual handling to a range of people handling tasks
• Carry out a range of appropriate people handling techniques to include transferring, supporting, gliding, sliding, rolling, sitting and standing
• Analyse the learner’s performance of people handling techniques
• Develop people handling training programmes, to include lesson plans
• Give effective instruction in practical people handling techniques