Manual Handling Awareness Training
Deciding who needs manual handling awareness training is usually done by giving it to everyone. A short role mapping is cheaper and closes gaps that a blanket approach leaves open.
Awareness is enough for office-based staff, and anyone whose handling is occasional and low risk. They need to recognise a hazardous task and know how to report it.
Awareness plus task-specific training for warehouse, retail, hospitality, trades and cleaning staff, where the handling is routine. The task-specific part has to use their actual tasks.
Assessed competence for anyone using equipment or moving people. Hoists, slide sheets and two-person transfers require demonstration and observation, not a module.
Organisations that give everyone the same awareness course usually over-serve the first group and under-serve the third, which is where the injuries are.
Safe Work Australia covers the training duty. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s manual handling course for disability and healthcare workers and manual handling course.
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