Manual Handling Courses

This course has been designed for employees who as part of their everyday work are involved in lifting inanimate objects and where a risk assessment has deemed it necessary for these employees to be trained in order to avoid back and other injuries associated with poor lifting techniques.

This course takes place over a two and a half hour period. On completion of this course, participants will have sufficient knowledge on how to lift and handle goods in a safe manner.  This will contribute to the overall reduction and prevention of back injuries at work. Participants will also learn the essential rules of general prevention of back pain as well as good work practice.  This course will consist of lectures, practical exercises, and discussions.

The practical sessions will make up approximately 40% of the course, in which participants will carry out exercises designed to illustrate many of the principles set forth in the lectures.  Continual assessment will take place throughout the course to ensure that participants have understood and learnt the techniques of good manual handling practice.

Upon completion of the course, participants will:

  • Understand their employer’s and their own responsibilities under Irish Health and Safety law

  • Have a basic understanding of the structure, anatomy, and physiology of the back

  • Understand how various forces, postures, and movements can affect the back

  • Understand the principles of safe moving and handling

  • Identify and assess manual handling hazards and risks that they may face within their daily work

  • Understand the principles of ergonomic and work task design

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People Handling Courses

People handling training is a requirement for all staff members working or wishing to work in the healthcare profession. This include healthcare assistants, nurses, porters, therapists, and any individuals responsible for manually aiding a person’s movement.

The people handling training course consists of two parts. The first is basic manual handling of inanimate objects and the second part of the course involves moving people.

Our instructor providing this training has successfully completed QQI manual handling and people moving instructor courses. We teach everything required for you to gain your patient manual handling certificate and meet the requirements of national health and safety guidelines.


This course begins at 9.30am and ends at 2.30pm. Participants will be given a lunch break 

This course covers the following topics:

  • Current legislation.

  • Muscular-skeletal system.

  • Ergonomics.

  • Risk assessment.

  • Flexibility.

  • The principles of manual handling.

  • Patient moving & handling.

  • Use of hoists

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