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Manual Handling Train the Trainer
Become the person who delivers manual handling in your own business. You leave with the technical knowledge, the training skills and the course material to design, deliver and evaluate manual handling training for your own people.
About this course
Manual handling is the training most businesses repeat more than any other, because it applies to nearly everybody and new starters keep arriving. This course is how you stop buying it in. It trains one of your own people to deliver manual handling training to the rest of the workforce, properly and repeatedly.
It covers three things: the principles and the risk assessment behind safe handling, the practical technique you will be demonstrating, and how to actually prepare and deliver a training session that lands. That last part is what separates a train the trainer course from a manual handling course.
It is written for managers, supervisors, safety advisers and anybody who has picked up responsibility for delivering manual handling training to a workforce. No teaching background is assumed.
We run it at our centres and at your own premises. Your own site is usually the better option here, because your trainer learns to deliver it in the room, and to the people, they will actually be working with.
- The principles and processes behind safe handling in the workplace, and where the legal duty sits
- How to carry out a manual handling risk assessment rather than repeat a rule of thumb
- The basic biomechanics: what actually injures people, and why the textbook lift is not always the right answer
- Applying safe practice to real handling tasks rather than to a demonstration box
- How to prepare a session: a session plan, an action plan and material you can reuse
- How to deliver it and hold a room, including the questions you will get asked
- How to evaluate a session afterwards and improve the next one
How completing this course helps you
- A Manual Handling Train the Trainer certificate
- The ability to deliver manual handling training to your own workforce, on your own timetable
- Session material and plans you take away and reuse
- A named contact here for the awkward questions once you are delivering it yourself
Who should attend?
Managers, supervisors, safety advisers and anybody responsible for delivering manual handling training to a workforce. No previous teaching or training qualification is needed.
Entry requirements. None. You do not need a teaching qualification first. Bring a laptop if you have one: most people find it easier to write their session plan and prepare their micro teach on it during the course.
Ready to take the next step?
Choose a delivery option, compare dates and book with confidence, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
Trainer, awareness, or eLearning
Three different manual handling courses, and which one you actually want
This page gets found by people who wanted one of the other two, so it is worth being blunt about the difference. This course trains somebody to teach manual handling. It does not train a workforce.
If you just need your people trained, that is the Manual Handling Awareness course, instructor led, covering safe technique and risk assessment. If you need it covered at scale or across shifts, the eLearning does the same job at a desk.
Train the trainer earns its keep when you are putting people through manual handling often enough that paying a trainer every time stops making sense, or when your shift pattern makes public dates awkward.
Training your workforce
Manual Handling Awareness, instructor led, or the eLearning if numbers and shifts make a classroom hard.
Training your trainer
This course. One of your own people leaves able to deliver manual handling to everybody else.
Not sure which
Tell us how many people, how often, and across how many sites. The answer usually falls out of those three numbers.
Course content
What you will cover
The qualification is structured around the management of health and safety and the practical application of risk assessment.
Understanding the principles of manual handling in the workplace
- The principles and processes that underpin safe handling at work
- Where the legal duty sits and what it asks of an employer
- How to carry out an assessment of manual handling risk
Application of safe practices to manual handling activities
- Basic biomechanical principles and what they mean in practice
- Applying safe practice to the handling tasks people actually do
- Demonstrating technique well enough that somebody can copy it
Delivering a manual handling training session
- Preparing a session: session plan, action plan and materials
- Delivering it to a group and handling what comes back
- Evaluating the session and improving the next one
Method of assessment
How the Manual Handling Train the Trainer course is assessed
One route through, and it ends with you teaching rather than with a paper.
Written session and action plans
You produce the plans for a session of your own rather than working from ours. This is the part a laptop helps with.
Deliver a micro teach
You deliver a short training session to the group, demonstrating the technique and the teaching together. It is the whole point of the course and it is what the certificate is for.
Certificate
A Manual Handling Train the Trainer certificate, and the material to go and deliver it in your own business.
Ways to learn
How you can take this course
Every route covers the same accredited syllabus and the same support. Pick the one that fits how your people work.
Classroom
Tutor-led at one of our centres, with everything provided.
Ask us to open a classroom date →or ask MB nowDates and locations
Arrange this course
There are no scheduled dates for this course at the moment. It is normally arranged around you.
Tell us roughly when you need it and how many people are going, and we will come back with dates and a price.
Also available
In-company training
We run this one to order, at your place or ours.
Onsite / in-company
Run Manual Handling Train the Trainer at your site
We deliver anywhere in the UK, on your dates and around your shift patterns. For six or more people it is usually cheaper per head than sending everyone to a centre, and nobody loses a day travelling.
Tell us roughly how many people and when, and we will come back with options and a price, or ask MB and get an answer straight away.
What onsite includes
- The same tutor, materials and certification as our centres
- Your venue or one we arrange near you
- Dates and start times built around your operation
- One invoice and one point of contact for the whole group
- Content examples drawn from your own workplace
Manual Handling Train the Trainer FAQs
No. It assumes no teaching background. It is written for managers, supervisors and safety advisers who have picked up responsibility for delivering manual handling training. If you want a recognised teaching qualification that is not tied to a subject, that is the Level 3 Award in Education and Training, and plenty of people take it afterwards.
A manual handling course trains you to handle loads safely. This trains you to teach other people to. The subject knowledge is in here, but so is the session planning, the delivery and the assessment, which is the part that makes you a trainer.
By a micro teach. You write session and action plans and then deliver a short training session to the group. There is no written exam.
A laptop if you have one. Most people find it easier to write their session plan and prepare their micro teach on it during the course rather than on paper.
Yes, and for this course it is often the better option. Your trainer learns to deliver it in the room they will be using, with the loads and the tasks your people actually handle. Tell us how many and where and we will come back the same working day.
It works best with a small group, because everybody has to deliver a micro teach to the others. Tell us the numbers you are thinking of and we will tell you honestly whether it works in one go or two.
Not for this one. The micro teach and the technique demonstration have to be done in a room. The awareness course has an eLearning version, and for training a workforce rather than a trainer that is often the sensible route.
There is no fixed expiry, but guidance, equipment and good practice move, and most employers refresh a trainer every three years. If your own procedures set a period, tell us and we will work to it.
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