Level 2 Award in Manual Handling Risk Assessment

The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to assess any hazardous manual handling tasks that cannot be avoided and reduce the risk of injury, so far as is reasonably practicable. Whilst employers don’t need to provide a qualification they find it useful to undertake the level 2 Certificate in Manual Handling Risk Assessment as it provides formal recognition of an individual's ability to undertake such an assessment.
It is assessed via a workplace-based manual handling risk assessment task which is delivered electronically to candidates.

• Reasons for Conducting manual handling Risk Assessments
• Main Legislation Relating to manual handling Risk Assessment
• Competencies Required of manual handling Risk Assessors
• Basic Principles of Anatomy and Physiology
• Common Injuries from Manual Handling Operations
• Vulnerable Groups at Risk
• Factors in a Manual Handling Risk Assessment
  • task
  • individual
  • load
  • environment
  • other factors
• Identifying and Evaluating Existing Control
• Measures
• Proposing Additional Control Measures
• Applying the Hierarchy of Controls
• Recording the Findings of a manual hand Risk
• Assessment
• Making Recommendations Based on the Findings, Reviewing and Revising a manual hand Risk Assessment