An interactive manual handling course that specifically focuses on the most hazardous tasks you perform as a worker in the childcare sector.
The aim of this program is to minimise the risk of injury from manual handling by providing information and education to all staff members on how to safely move children and objects. The course also addresses ways in which all workers can make the workplace safer.
The course topics include:
1. Understanding the parts of the body that commonly get injured;
2. Understanding how injuries occur;
3. Identifying the most hazardous tasks in the childcare sector, and;
4. Gaining an understanding on the principles of good manual handling in child care.