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LEVEL 2 AWARD · ENGLAND AND WALES Moving and Handling of People and Objects Replacing confidence with judgement — the knowledge component of the Level 2 Award. SIX MODULES · 27 LEARNING OUTCOMES · 20-QUESTION ASSESSMENT, 70% PASS MARK CPD …
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Moving and Handling
Replacing confidence with judgement — the knowledge component of the Level 2 Award.
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Overview
Manual handling is a subject people think they already understand. Almost everybody has lifted something, and almost everybody believes they know how. That confidence is precisely the problem: the injuries in this field are mostly cumulative, so the thing that damages your spine does not hurt on the day you do it. This course is written to replace confidence with judgement.
Six modules run from the legal duties and the mechanics of injury, through risk assessment, safe handling of objects, and — with particular care — the safe and dignified handling of people, before closing on equipment and records. Knowledge and competence are different things: this course provides the knowledge component only. Competence additionally requires being observed performing the relevant techniques, on the equipment you will actually use, and signed off by an assessor — nothing here should be attempted in practice until that has happened, and that applies with particular force to handling people.
Who this course is for
This course provides the knowledge component only. It cannot make you competent — competence requires observed practice and sign-off by an assessor, in person, on the equipment and techniques you will actually use.
Learning outcomes
Across the six modules, learners will be able to:
Define manual handling and describe its scale and cost.
Explain the duties under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
Outline the related health and safety legislation that sits alongside MHOR.
Distinguish employer duties from employee duties.
Describe the structure of the spine and its role in handling.
Distinguish acute from cumulative injury and name common musculoskeletal disorders.
Explain how posture and load distance affect force on the spine.
Identify personal factors that change individual capability.
Apply the TILE framework to a handling task.
Use the HSE guideline weight zones correctly.
Carry out and document a manual handling assessment.
Explain when an assessment must be reviewed.
Perform the safe lifting sequence.
Distinguish correct from incorrect handling posture.
Apply safe practice to pushing and pulling.
Carry out team handling safely.
Manage carrying, lowering and awkward loads.
Apply consent, dignity and capacity when handling people.
Follow an individual moving and handling plan.
Assist a person to stand and to walk.
Reposition a person in bed safely.
Identify techniques that must never be used.
Respond safely when a person falls.
Identify common moving and handling equipment and its uses.
Select and check slings and safe working loads.
Explain inspection duties under LOLER and PUWER.
Report and record incidents correctly.
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Course structure
The Law and Your Duties
The Body and How It Gets Hurt
Risk Assessment
Handling Objects
Handling People
Equipment and Records
Frequently asked questions
Q. Is there a legal maximum lifting weight?
No. There is no legal maximum lifting weight in UK law — not 25 kg, not 20 kg, not anything. The law requires a process (avoid, assess, reduce, review), not compliance with a number.
Q. Does completing this course make me competent to handle people?
No. Knowledge and competence are different things. Competence requires being observed performing the techniques, on the equipment you will actually use, and signed off by an assessor.
Q. Is a policy of “no lifting under any circumstances” the safe option?
No. The HSE has said explicitly that such policies remove professional judgement, and in practice lead to people being left on floors for hours waiting for equipment a proportionate assessment would have allowed a handler to manage.
Q. How often should training and assessments be reviewed?
Refresher training annually, and immediately whenever a task, a person’s needs or the equipment changes. Assessments must also be reviewed after any significant change, incident or new information.
Q. What if my workplace’s technique contradicts this course?
Raise it with your moving and handling lead rather than assuming either is wrong. Some methods once taught as standard practice are now known to cause injury.
Q. Where a person has an individual handling plan, does this course override it?
No. Where this course and a current individual handling plan disagree, the plan wins — it is written for that specific person, on a specific day, with specific equipment.
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Course Features
- Lectures 8
- Quizzes 2
- Duration Lifetime access
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 2
- Certificate Yes
- Assessments Self
