Did anyone see this article; I have only just come across it. http://www.dailymail.co....ats-like-The-Office.html I know the Daily Mail loves to bash Health and Safety but do they have a point? Has manual handling training become mandatory for most employees without any assessment of the risks and therefore the training requirements for different work groups? I have two distinct work groups, as I am sure many of you do e.g. office and engineering, I have an information leaflet for the office workers and a short training course (about 90 mins) for the engineers. I remember once attending a workshop on manual handling provided by a law firm who primarily worked in defending civil negligence claims. They wheeled out an eminent surgical professor who specialised in spinal surgery and rehabilitation but also did a lot of work in defending back injury claims as an expert witness. He stated that the manual handling regs were the worst thing for back health as they only encouraged our sedentary lifestyle which he considered to be the main contributory factor in a high percentage of back injuries. It was an interesting point bearing in mind that he was coming from the position of defending claims, it did made me think about the content of my MH course an I started to include a section on back health. I am once again busy updating my manual handling training programmes for my new employer the core of which I have been using for around 15 years. Its normally pretty well received as I try to make it as interesting an interactive as possible. It includes the normal handling techniques and a section on back health and lifestyle factors. What do you include in your manual handling training and how do you get your audience interested and the key message across.