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Manual Handling in Education eLearning
Online manual handling training written for schools, the lifting that actually happens in a school day, from PE equipment and staging to boxes of exercise books.
Who it is for
Who this manual handling in education course is for
School manual handling is not warehouse manual handling. It is teachers moving furniture between lessons, site staff shifting staging, TAs carrying resources, and catering staff handling deliveries: usually in a hurry, often around children.
- Teachers and teaching assistants
- Site, caretaking and premises staff
- School catering and kitchen teams
- PE and technology department staff
- Early years and nursery staff
- Office and reception staff handling deliveries
Course content
What the manual handling in education course covers
Six short modules built around LITE (Load, Individual, Task, Environment) applied to the handling that happens in a school.
Handling injuries in schools
Where they happen, and why school handling is easy to underestimate.
The law and school duties
What the employer must do, and who the employer is in different types of school.
Assessing with LITE
Load, Individual, Task, Environment applied to classroom and site tasks.
Safer technique
Planning the lift, team lifts and using equipment rather than muscle.
School-specific tasks
Furniture, staging, PE equipment, deliveries and resource boxes.
Working around children
Handling safely in occupied corridors, classrooms and playgrounds.
Outcomes
What you will be able to do afterwards
- Recognise the handling tasks in a school that cause injury
- Apply the LITE assessment to a classroom or site task
- Use safer technique for lifting, carrying and pushing
- Judge when to use a trolley, an aid or a second person
- Handle furniture, staging and equipment safely
- Manage handling tasks safely around pupils
Your legal duty
The law behind manual handling in education training
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 apply to schools exactly as they apply to any other employer: avoid hazardous manual handling where reasonably practicable, assess what cannot be avoided, and reduce the risk of injury.
Who the employer is varies by school type: local authority, academy trust or governing body. That affects who holds the duty. The duty itself does not change.
- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended)
- Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 - sections 2 and 7
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - risk assessment
- The employer varies by school type; the duty does not
Practicalities
How the course works
For employers
Manual Handling in Education training for a team
Schools have high seasonal turnover and a lot of casual handling. Covering all staff at induction is the practical approach.
- One invoice instead of a card payment per person
- Licences allocated as people join, so induction is covered
- Completion and expiry reporting for your records
- Renewal reminders before certificates lapse
- Bespoke versions built around your own procedures
For non-school settings, the general manual handling course applies. See the general Manual Handling course →
Manual Handling in Education eLearning: common questions
The method is the same; the examples are not. This version works through school tasks: furniture, staging, PE equipment, resource boxes and deliveries, and handling around pupils.
No. Moving and handling of pupils with additional needs is a specialist, practical subject requiring hands-on training and individual handling plans.
It depends on the school type, local authority, academy trust or governing body. The course explains why that matters and who holds the duty.
Yes. Site and catering staff do the heaviest handling in most schools, and the course covers their tasks specifically.
About 30 minutes, with no time limit. Start it, pause it, and come back whenever suits. The certificate is issued the moment you finish.
Yes. It runs in a browser on any modern phone, tablet or computer, with nothing to install.
Yes. Open a business account and we invoice you for the licences, which you allocate as people need them, with completion reporting included.