OHS & E Onsite Manual Handling Training
Straight Back to Health Program for manual handlers and managers
Manual Handling injuries to the back, neck, knee and shoulders plague the workplace. Have you assessed all manual tasks in the work place for potential risk of injury?
So...how does your company rate? See checklist below.
1. Do your employees engage in manual handling on a day-to-day basis?
2. .Have you taken steps to control the potential of risk of injury to your workers?
3. Have your employees received adequate training in manual handling to minimise the potential risks of sprain and strain injuries?
4. Do your supervisors have the skills to identify potential manual handling risks?
5. Has your company suffered financially, directly or indirectly due to the injury of an employee from a manual handling related injury?
6. Would you like assistance to avoid manual handling related injuries in your workplace?
Time to minimise all the risks!
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Established in 1992 with over 18 years of delivering the most effective and user friendly training programme, the "Straight Back to Health" training program is recognised by industry and commerce as one of the most effective programs for reducing manual handling injuries in the workplace.
Having already conducted thousands of training sessions across a huge range of industries, we have the knowledge and experience to lower your companies' exposure to Workcover claims and to litigation.
Today we are better equipped than ever before to tackle the epidemic of musculo-skeletal injuries in workplaces occuring all over Australia and in fact all over the world.
Our success in reducing workplace injuries and raising awareness of the need to break the poor manual handling habit of workers is evident from the testimonials that we have received from our clients. They are from Australia's most successful companies.
Whether you have 10 employees or 10,000 employees we have the program and the people to make your work place a safer working environment.
Manual handling injuries are the biggest category of injury across all areas of industry and commerce which is why we specialise in this area of Occupational Health and Safety.
- professionally indemnified to cover any risk that may occur while fulfilling your training needs
- manual handling training program complies with TLID 107C Shift Materials Safely Unit of Competence from the training package Transport and Distribution TL 107 as well as other like Training Packages. This registration and the qualifications your workers receive upon completion are nationally recognised.
Straight Back to Health Correct Manual Handling & Correct Working Posture Training Program.
Arrange training for your staff in the correct lifting and working postures.
Schedule: we work in your required schedule, no matter how early or how late in the day.
Location: on water or land. Nationally and internationally, on oil rigs, on ships, race tracks, in mines, building sites, in cool rooms, anywhere where people shift loads.
Specialist’s in Manual Handling Training. Training Programs are divided into the following 4 categories:
1. Train the Employee / Associate Workshops
On the job training program:
Exclusively tailored for your company’s specific needs and the needs of your managers and/or employees.
Duration of programme: between 100 -120 minutes to complete.
Size of groups:
Ideally training sessions are conducted in groups of up to 20 people at a time.
(Groups with lesser numbers can be trained - but at the same session price)
Groups greater than 20 can be trained when absolutely necessary. (an additional cost per head applies)
Groups over 25 people: a second trainer may be required to obtain the best result for you and the participants; alternatively we recommend an additional training session be conducted.
Required Training Materials per person, per session:
1 x Straight Back to Health Employee / Associate 36 page colour workbook
1 x Laminated Exercise/stretch tri-fold card per trainee.
We also provide (specially printed) Company Branded - Logo included editions of the work books. All special edition work books incur an extra cost. A quote is provided.
2. Train the Employee / Associate Follow-Up Workshop
Once the initial training program #1 has been completed and after 6 to 12 months of application by the trainee, it is recommended that the entire workforce be put through a revision program, then complete the practical exam to become Accredited Manual Handlers in the Straight Back to Health Program.
This revision program opens the way to the accredited unit of competency. It will be carried forward by all employees and associates who complete the program successfully.
This program is normally completed in two hours and is comprised of : revision and amplification of the reasons and effects of incorrect lifting and poor manual handling:
• bending forward whilst lifting
• twisting from the lower back or twisting and lifting whilst bent over
• jumping from a raised area to the ground
• reaching out or up and away from the body
Correct manual handling techniques are discussed, demonstrated and an understanding is reached as to why the correct techniques have to be employed.
A circuit is then set up using the appropriate measures to assess the participant’s new skills and our trained instructor then examines the participant in the “shifting of materials safely” until they pass the test to a 100% result.
Each participant is then issued a certificate of completion confirming the participant has passed and is a competent manual handler.
3. Train the Employee / Associate Advanced Workshop
Once the initial #1 training program is completed, and after the # 2 revision program is completed, some On-site Manual Handling Champions and usually all Supervisors of manual handling activities complete a more theoretical accreditation training unit.
This is a planning module and reaches into a person’s real ability to apply all they know about correct manual handling and the use of correct working postures to the benefit of others involved in manual handling activities.
Graduates work in small groups to plan major work activities using all the applicable OH & S Law, Codes of Practice and the various Work cover guide lines on the subject. This culminates in Graduates achieving a nationally recognised unit of Competency.
4. Train the In-house Trainer Workshop
A two day workshop for managers/supervisors and safety champions who want to become able to train on-site staff and new hires in the #1 & # 2 programs.
A Straight Back to Health Program manual and workshop workbook is included.
Sessions are available to groups of 6 or more trainees. They are trained within the employer’s own facility with a full “apprenticeship” step included.
A follow up session after 3 months is included here, where trainees are reviewed on their ability to conduct a training session in-house and to engage in corrective actions on the shop floor in a competent and professional manner.
This makes it a 3 day training and assessment activity overall.
Graduates who pass the assessment criteria will be licensed to use our training system in house and will be able to use our training materials. This is an extensive training in what a manual handling risk is and how to avoid these risks in the workplace.
Risk identification, risk assessments and risk controls are discussed in detail and all of the applicable laws and codes are also reviewed thoroughly. Attendance at one of our employee / associate two hour sessions is a pre-requisite to this training.
Contact us today +61 3 9486 1771 or email info@upstreamoilpersonnel.com
Our Client list includes:
Alcatel TCC
Alford Hydraulics
APM Amcor
Aqua Drilling
Armaguard
ARTC Grafton Transport Express Joint Venture
Australian Air Express
Australian Bakels
Australian Customs
Australian Eco Systems
AWG Australia Pty Ltd
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B.P Australia
Banyule City Council
Barclay Mowlem
Bathhurst Rail Fabrication
BIC
Bondor
Boral Plasterboard
Boral Scaffolding
Boral Scaffolding and Formwork
Botany City Council
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C.S.R Readymix
Cadbury Schweppes
Caterpillar
Central West McCarthys
City of Moreland
City of Stonnington
Coca Cola Amatil
CSR Distilleries
CSR Performance Systems Cut and Fill
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Dahlsens Building Centre
DeMartin + Gasparini (Boral)
Entertainment Distributors
Farstad Sea
Fuji Xerox
Gippsland Water
Heslop Die Casters
Hilton Hotel
Howard Smith
Hurstville City Council
IBM
Integral Energy
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Mainco
Malthouse Theatre
Markforce
Mcphee Riteway
Melbourne Museum
Melbourne Orchestra
Metwest Alliance
MM Cables
Mountain H2O
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Nestle
Neverfail
Northline Freight
NSW Health Commission
Numack Drilling Services
OTIS Elevators
PC Mobile Welding Australia P/L
Penfolds Wines
Qantas AGSE
Qantas Freight
Qantas Line Maintenance
Qantas Operations
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Railcorp NSW
Red Cross Blood Service
Renold Australia
Rentakil
Rondo
SDI Limited
Sharp
Shell Direct
Sony Dadc
Stonnington Council
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Tatura Milk
Telstra
Thiess
Thiess Eastlink
Thiess Hochtief JV
Thiess John Holland JV
Tieman
TNT Express
Toohey’s
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United Care Accomodation Outreach House
United Care Respite House
United Group Ltd
Wannon Water
Westall Train Maintenance
Workcover Authority NSW
Wormald
Yarra Trams
