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Is it sufficient for staff to be trained via an interactive service? We use safety media which gives a 30 min presentation followed by questions and answers sessions.
Does all training have to be performed by a person or can they be computer based?
It is so difficult to organise training at our site due to the lack of staff, its not possible to take even 3 men off the job or production suffers. We always have to wait for our bi annual shutdowns for any type of training to be given.
If its sufficient for staff to get training by watching videos or using interactive services I would like to know.
The problem for me is it can cost the same to train 1 person as it can to train 10 people and I can only get two people free at a time the cost of getting consultants in is far to great.
Thoughts welcome
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Mersey, I don't think there's anything that will say you have to train staff in a particular way but manual handling's one of those that's only effective if you've somehow managed to judge what they've retained from it. Which means practical content.
As you know, whatever losses in production result from time out for training pale against costs from sickness absence and claims.
Difficult one in your position, though.
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Mersey, firstly I agree with others in that this particular training has a practical element and with that in mind the training should also have the same element.
Have you thought of sending people to public courses rather than undertaking courses in-house with the small numbers you mention?
Next have you checked out the prices you are paying for trainers to come to your company, maybe time to revaluate this?
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I agree with the other postings. For Manual Handling, a practical element is required in the training. I am a Manual Handling Trainer and I mix different styles of delivery in the training session - handouts, slides, video, physical aids which leave an image in people's minds and then comes the practical(s).
Have you thought of being trained yourself as a Manual Handling Trainer? You could use your normal method but maybe practical side could be 'on job training' i.e. watch the staff physically perform MH in their normal activity and advice on the spot or maybe a short exercise during a tea break session. This would be more realistic to what they actually do than watch a vidoe of someone moving a box of paper in an office.
Hope this helps.
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Have you had a lot of manual handling injuries or complaints?
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jacqui wrote:Mersey
Have you thought of being trained yourself as a Manual Handling Trainer? You could use your normal method but maybe practical side could be 'on job training' i.e. watch the staff physically perform MH in their normal activity and advice on the spot or maybe a short exercise during a tea break session. quote]
I agree with the suggestion that you become a manual handling trainer and add to the work by observation. Not sure about your staff but I know that if I were to suggest training during tea breaks I would get short shrift from the teams. I would suggest tool box talks just before or after breaks to minimise disruption. Remember that jam donuts are a good illustration of how an intervertabral disk works and can be a good bribe / memory lodger
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To be fair we don't have many complaints and have vacuum lifters in areas of production were needed, I just want to get it captured somewhere that people are trained, because our site is a one cap fits all and sometimes you can be called off your normal job to lend a hand moving pallets tidying up etc.......
Any trainers in the northwest UK pref Liverpool that can train me to be a trainer?
Let me know
Cheers
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Well done M... you understood the 'physical aids leaving an image'. I also use jam doughnuts - people do remember and it makes a boring topic light and enjoyable. I also use bending straws and small bathroom/kitchen tiles.
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Quote=jacqui]Well done M... you understood the 'physical aids leaving an image'. I also use jam doughnuts - people do remember and it makes a boring topic light and enjoyable. I also use bending straws and small bathroom/kitchen tiles.
I use the jam doughnuts, but they are always soggy when I eat it after 12 people have squeezed it. It is important to have them get involved in a practical aspect to show they understood the video and shows a degree of competency. However if you have questions after the DVD then this also shows a degree of understanding. I am a manual handling trainer and often find that if you carry out practical with all then there are those who have a way of lifting opposed to that of the DVD and then you end up either continually correcting them and embarrassing them that they become upset by the whole process, not everyone likes to stand in front of people even their own colleagues and demonstrate that they know how to lift. Part of training is making people comfortable, get people who are confident to demonstrate. Tool box talks are a good idea but then again you don't need to demonstrate. The company you use have a tool box talk DVD. WE made our own and had fun doing it.
I work in the Liverpool area myself.
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Don't be so mean buy the mini doughnuts and give them one each to squeeze - then eat. I thought I had invented this visual aid - obviously not.
Even used a see saw once to show the lever when training Park Rangers
Irene
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ipaterson wrote:Yeuk
Don't be so mean buy the mini doughnuts and give them one each to squeeze - then eat. I thought I had invented this visual aid - obviously not.
Even used a see saw once to show the lever when training Park Rangers
Irene
Thought I was getting something wrong.
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