NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment

Certificate Level

The NEBOSH HSE Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment is a one-day qualification, based on HSE’s best practice guidance and tools. The content will help you to identify and assess manual handling risk, and more importantly, prioritise controls to protect workers.

This qualification is for anyone who gets involved with assessing and addressing manual handling risks. For example health and safety professionals, workplace champions, employee representatives and occupational health practitioners.

Course Content

Course Content:

The qualification will help you to:

Explain the importance of reducing risks associated with manual handling activities
Understand responsibilities in relation to manual handling
Explain what manual handling risks are and how they may result in injury
Demonstrate and practice appropriate manual handling risk assessment technique
Apply wider elements of risk management for manual handling.

Using this qualification to build in-house expertise will help organisations:

Protect team members from one of the main causes of musculoskeletal disorders
Have confidence that the approach adopted to manual handling risk assessment reflects best practice and utilises HSE manual handling tools and templates.

Entry Requirements

No formal entry requirements

Duration

One Day

Study Methods

This course consists of either online or classroom based activities, practical training and a written assessment

Assessment

A practical assessment is completed at the end of the course. After watching a video of a manual handling activity in a workplace, you will be asked to assess it using HSE tools and templates.