Manual Handling for Early Years Settings Training
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The Manual Handling for Early Years Staff Course is a half day course designed for those working in an early-years setting, looking to gain the knowledge and skills to carry out day-to-day manual handling tasks. Moving and Handling is a key part of the day for many early years workers and along with other musculoskeletal disorders, equate for more than a third of work-related injuries across all work sectors in the UK.
Who is the Course For?
All staff working in early years environment
Syllabus
- Manual handling legislation
- What is manual handling
- Hierarchy of control relating to manual handling
- Common workplace injuries, relating to manual handling
- Risk assessing manual handling tasks
- Generic assessments
- Dynamic assessments
- Good handling techniques
- Do’s and do nots of safe lifting techniques
- Practical lifting exercises common to early years settings
Prerequisite
- The Manual Handling for Early Years Course is aimed at those over 16
- Learners are required to demonstrate safe manual handling techniques as they would be applied in a real environment, therefore learners must be physically capable of doing this.
Course Duration
3 contact hours
Good Skills Training normally deliver this course over half a-day, 09:30 – 12:45
Awarding Body
Qualification Code
Delivery Type
Face-to-face.
Maximum Learners Per Tutor
Assessment Method
The Manual Handling for Early Years Course is Assessed through a practical demonstration.
Re-Qualification
Manual Handling Training should be refreshed at regular intervals, every 3-years is a good guide to this. To renew your certificate, you will need to attend another Manual Handling for Early Years Course.
