Benefits Of Manual Handling Course
The benefits of manual handling course completion that persuade a finance director are not the injury statistics. They are the claims and insurance position.
Where a body stressing claim arises, the questions asked are consistent. Was the worker trained. On what. When. Was the training relevant to the task that caused the injury. Was there a risk assessment, and did the training reflect it.
An organisation that can answer all five with dated records is in a materially different position from one that cannot, both in managing the claim and in any regulator involvement that follows.
Insurers increasingly ask the same questions at renewal, and a documented programme is far easier to evidence than a series of toolbox talks nobody wrote down at the time.
Safe Work Australia covers the training and record duties. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s records management software and manual handling course.
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