Alistair Bromhead Ltd on What to Consider When Selecting a Manual Handling Instructor Course

ASHTEAD, U.K. - Nov. 20, 2017 - PRLog -- 31.2 million working days were lost due to work-related ill health and non-fatal workplace injuries in 2016-2017. A large proportion of these were related to musculoskeletal disorders which are often connected to poor manual handling techniques.

Sending employees on external training courses is commonly considered disruptive and costly, but there is an alternative, and that is to invest in trainers that are based in-house.

Dr Alistair Bromhead is the founder of Alistair Bromhead Ltd, a nationwide provider of manual handling and health and safety training. Dr Bromhead himself is CMIOSH (Chartered Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) registered which attests to the demonstration of the competence demanded of professionals in health and safety management. He says that the benefits to businesses and organisations of having their own in-house manual handling trainers are manifold.

"This can be achieved," he says, "by organising for your own selected personnel to attend manual handling train the trainer courses.

"When choosing a course, however, it is essential to take a number of points into consideration in order to ensure you make a choice that will genuinely benefit your organisation."

Dr Bromhead cites six key points to follow when choosing a manual handling train the trainer course.

Point 1: Trainer Experience & Qualifications

"It is crucial that you choose a well-qualified and highly experienced health and safety training expert. The health and safety element is key because the topic of manual handling needs to be put into context. The training, qualifications and experience of the trainer are vital; without them there will be no engagement, and without engagement, there is no absorption or retention of vital information."

Point 2: Longevity & Continuity

"Look for a training company that will give you continuity. A longstanding, well established training business will give you reassurance that it will be around the next time you need to engage its services. This allows you to maintain consistency in the messages and techniques that your trainers are putting across to your workforce."

Point 3: Engaging Training

"An effective manual handling train the trainer course should concentrate on equipping trainers with a range of techniques that raise personal interest and give them an inventive to integrate sound handling principles into their daily lives. It is only through generating motivation and encouraging participation that a course can hope to achieve real, effective change."

Point 4: Practical Training

"Classroom tutorials where a trainer simply talks at participants and shows them a few videos are a total waste of time and money. Not only will they miss the vital engagement we talked about, they'll also fail to equip potential new trainers with the practical, hands-on skills and experience they need to pass on to others. Look for an interactive course where participants actually get to grips with real and relevant manual handling tasks."

Point 5: Risk Assessment

"A very important element of manual handling safety is risk assessment: without a tailored assessment of the risks of the task in hand, how can a decision be made on how to approach it? Risk assessments can save lives and manual handling trainers MUST know how to conduct them, which is why it is vital that the course you choose includes a manual handling risk assessment element."

Point 6: Instructor Pack

"A course that sends participants off with nothing more than a transcript of the day is of little use to anyone. If you want your new in-house trainers returning armed with everything they need to design, develop and deliver effective manual handling training within your workforce, be sure to choose a course that provides them with a comprehensive pack including lesson plans, a course manual and other useful items."

Alistair Bromhead Limited offers the ORIGINAL City & Guilds accredited programme: manual handling training the trainer course, and has been working with the City & Guilds accredited centre of Proskills Global for over 12 years on such courses.

The programme offers practical, interactive training delivered by highly experienced trainers. Participants leave equipped with the technical knowledge, training skills and course materials they need to deliver manual handling training at an effective level. An exclusive instructor pack is provided and training in conducting risk assessments is included as standard.

For more information visit http://www.abromhead.co.uk/manual-handling-train-the-trainer.asp. Courses can be fully tailored to individual needs. To book or find out more, call 0800 710 1099 or email info@abromhead.co.uk.