Benefits Of Manual Handling Training

The benefits of manual handling training are usually measured by counting injuries, which is the slowest indicator available and the last to move.

What tends to shift earlier is claim duration and severity. Workers who recognise a strain early, report it, and modify the task recover faster than those who work through it until something tears. That shows up in weeks lost well before it shows up in incident counts.

The second early signal is hazard reports. A rise is a good sign, not a bad one. It means people have started noticing tasks they previously accepted, which is exactly what the training is meant to produce.

Tell your executive both of those things before the programme starts. A rising hazard count in the first year will otherwise be read as a failure at exactly the point the training began working.

Safe Work Australia covers hazardous manual tasks. This is general information rather than legal advice.

See Sentrient’s manual handling course and incident reporting software.