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Course · CPD-standard · Online
Manual Handling Awareness — Free Practice Course
🕑 Self-paced · about 1.5 hours
🧩 11 guided steps 🎯 10-question assessments, randomised
12 months’ access · study on any device · no subscription
Written and taught by a CPD Approved Provider (#791025)
A bad back rarely comes from one heroic lift. It builds up from ordinary loads, lifted the wrong way, on ordinary days, until one morning something gives. This free taster shows you the difference between the lift that costs you and the one that doesn’t.
🆕 Free, no catch
Two short lessons, two quick games and a practice quiz. A real taste of the full course.
🇬🇧 UK guidance
Built on the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 and HSE good practice, just like the full course.
⬆️ Go further any time
Ready for the T.I.L.E. risk assessment, mechanical aids, team lifting and a CPD-standard certificate? The full course has the lot.
What’s in the taster
- What manual handling actually covers, and how a poor lift injures your back
- The safe way to lift, lower, push and pull without paying for it later
- Two hands-on games and a short quiz to check what stuck
Course content
- Welcome to the tasterLesson
- Manual handling & your backLesson
- What we actually mean by manual handlingTopic
- How a bad lift hurts your backTopic
- 🎮 Quick game: true or myth?Topic
- Lifting the safe wayLesson
- Think before you liftTopic
- The lift itself, and why pushing beats pullingTopic
- 🎮 Quick game: order a safe liftTopic
- Nice work, what next?Lesson
- Manual Handling Awareness — Practice AssessmentQuiz