Online Manual Handling - Schools
Key Information
Duration: Self-Paced Learning
Online Learning, completed in your own time at a location of your choice.
Once you have signed up to your course, you have 60 days of accessibility to complete your assessment.
Price (excl GST)
$95 Per Person
Understand how the body functions and how to use the correct techniques to prevent back injury in the workplace.
This course will help you understand the harmful and physical demands placed on our bodies and give you the tools to support your long term physical performance. Learn to apply effective lifting and moving techniques that will relate directly to your work activities and gain awareness and knowledge for combating back and musculoskeletal injuries.
Key Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the structure and function of the spine
- Identify risk factors associated with occupational back injury and techniques that reduce the risk of back injury
- Identify work place control measures to reduce the risk of back injury
- Identify back care techniques
Entry Criteria:
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All students are required to have a level of written and oral English equivalent to NCEA level 1 (year 11) or IELTS 5.5 or higher, to be eligible to attend our courses. The person responsible for making bookings or authorising attendance on the course must agree to these Terms and Conditions prior to acceptance of their student(s) onto the course. Where a student does not meet our English language requirement a reader/writer must be supplied by the student or the person responsible for authorising the student’s attendance. The reader/writer cannot be another student attending the same course.
