Manual Handling Training

What You Will Learn

• Explain what manual handling involves and why effective risk management matters.
• Identify tasks involving lifting, lowering, carrying, pushing, pulling, or repetitive movement.
• Recognize common manual handling hazards, injuries, and contributing risk factors.
• Consider the load, task, environment, and individual factors when evaluating risk.
• Apply practical ergonomic principles and risk-reduction strategies to workplace activities.
• Use safer approaches when lifting, carrying, pushing, or pulling loads.
• Review realistic workplace scenarios and identify opportunities to improve how tasks are performed.

Why Train with Satoms

This course turns essential manual handling principles into clear, practical guidance that you can relate to everyday work. It explains how hazards arise, which factors can increase risk, and how thoughtful task planning can support safer working practices.

Satoms training is written by industry experts with over 20 years of practical experience. Each course is designed to deliver an excellent-quality online learning experience without unnecessary complexity. You can progress at your own pace, revisit important concepts, and build useful knowledge and confidence.

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Who This Course Is For

Manual Handling Training is beginner-friendly and relevant to people who perform, supervise, or support tasks involving physical effort or the movement of loads. It is particularly suitable for:

• Employees who lift, carry, push, pull, or move items at work.
• Warehouse, logistics, site, and operational workers.
• Contractors who encounter manual handling tasks in different workplaces.
• Supervisors and team leaders responsible for day-to-day activities.
• Health and safety or administrative staff supporting workplace risk management.
• Business owners and employers seeking practical awareness training for workers.

Course Benefits

• Approach routine manual handling tasks with greater awareness and confidence.
• Notice hazards and contributing risk factors before beginning a physical task.
• Make better-informed decisions about posture, movement, load handling, and task organization.
• Identify practical opportunities to reduce risk before relying on handling technique alone.
• Communicate more clearly with coworkers, supervisors, and contractors about manual handling concerns.
• Apply transferable awareness across a range of roles, tasks, and work environments.

The knowledge developed through this course can help you participate more effectively in workplace risk discussions and make considered choices when planning or completing manual tasks.

Training Certificate on Completion

After successfully completing the course requirements, you will receive a Satoms training certificate. It provides a clear record that you have completed the online training and developed awareness of practical manual handling principles and safer workplace practices.

Course Requirements

• No previous manual handling qualification is required.
• No specialist health and safety knowledge is necessary.
• Learners should be prepared to work through the online material and consider how its principles apply to their own workplace, industry, or routine tasks.

The course is designed for beginner-level, self-paced online study, making it accessible to both new learners and experienced workers who want to refresh their knowledge.