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Manual Handling

Expert Manual Handling Training in Australia

Prevent painful injuries, reduce compensation claims, and empower your workforce. Musculoskeletal injuries represent the highest cost to Australian businesses today. However, you can prevent them. OHSA provides industry-leading manual handling training designed to eliminate hazardous tasks and protect your team. Furthermore, we offer nationally recognized certification for individuals looking to boost their employability in high-risk sectors.

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The True Cost of Hazardous Manual Tasks

Poor manual handling does not just cause back pain; it devastates lives and destroys business profitability. Under the WHS Act, employers must actively identify and manage tasks that require repetitive movement, high force, or awkward postures.

Unfortunately, generic lifting videos do not work. Therefore, our expert ergonomists deliver practical, hands-on manual handling training. We specifically tailor our programs to the unique physical demands of your workplace. Consequently, your workers learn how to move safely, utilise mechanical aids, and actively assess physical risks before they act.

Corporate Manual Handling Solutions

We deliver targeted safety programs that protect your bottom line and your people.

1. Custom On-Site Manual Handling Training. We bring our expert trainers directly to your facility. First, we assess your specific workplace hazards. Next, we train your staff with their actual daily equipment, ensuring safety principles apply immediately to their real-world environment.
2. Healthcare & “No-Lift” Patient Handling. Patient handling carries massive injury risks. Importantly, our team has successfully introduced comprehensive no-lift risk management systems into over 100 hospitals and aged care facilities across Australia. We train your nursing and care staff to utilise modern hoists and slide sheets safely.
3. Ergonomic Assessments & Job Design. Sometimes, you need to change the job, not the worker. We conduct detailed biomechanical strain analyses to redesign hazardous workstations. Ultimately, we help you eliminate the physical risk at the source.

Build Your Career: Individual Certification

Do you need a manual handling certificate to secure a job in construction, warehousing, or healthcare? OHSA bridges the gap between expert corporate consulting and elite individual education.

As a Registered Training Organisation (RTO 31092), we teach the exact safety methodologies that top-tier employers demand. Our courses give you the practical skills to protect your body and manage workplace hazards confidently.

• Provide Manual Handling Training: Learn the foundational principles of safe lifting, risk assessment, and hazard identification required for most physical industries.
• Certificate IV in Work Health & Safety: Upgrade your career. Learn how to design entire risk management systems and eliminate hazardous manual tasks at a corporate level.

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Industry Insights & Regulatory Standards

To ensure our training provides maximum legal and physical protection, OHSA aligns all manual handling programs with peak regulatory bodies and biomechanical standards:

• Safe Work Australia: We structure our training directly around the Hazardous Manual Tasks Code of Practice published by Safe Work Australia.
• Human Factors and Ergonomics Society of Australia (HFESA): Our biomechanical assessments and training modules reflect the rigorous scientific standards championed by the HFESA.
• WorkSafe Queensland: We strictly adhere to state-specific WHS legislation to ensure your business meets all local compliance requirements.
• training.gov.au: As a registered RTO, we ensure our accredited courses strictly meet the national standards outlined on the Australian Government’s central VET registry.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

• What is manual handling? Manual handling involves any activity requiring a person to lift, lower, push, pull, carry, or otherwise move, hold, or restrain an object, person, or animal. Importantly, it covers everything from lifting heavy boxes to typing at a poorly designed desk.
• How often should staff receive manual handling training? Employers should provide manual handling training during a worker’s initial induction. Furthermore, you must provide refresher training annually or whenever you introduce new equipment, change a work process, or identify a new hazard.
• Is your manual handling training tailored to specific industries? Yes. We strictly customise our corporate training to match your environment. For example, we teach slide-sheet techniques for healthcare workers, while we focus on heavy load leverage and mechanical aids for construction and warehouse staff.
• Do I need a manual handling certificate to work in aged care? Yes, almost all healthcare and aged care employers require you to hold current manual handling certification. Specifically, you must understand how to safely operate patient-lifting equipment to protect both yourself and the patient.