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Praxis42 Urges Companies to Comply

Praxis42, a health and safety training company, is urging companies to wise up to Manual Handling Regulations or face potential prosecution.

The company, which is fast becoming a key figure in the health and safety industry, providing a range of essential training and eLearning courses, believes too many companies are either unaware of, or ignore, their basic legal duties towards manual handling. 

Chris Griffin, sales and marketing manager said:

“If a company’s employees have to lift, carry, lower, push or pull loads then the Manual Handling Regulations will apply.  This means employers must undertake a risk assessment and must also ensure their employers know about the risks associated with manual handling, such as identifying obvious risks and hazards and knowing how to deal with them.” 

Manual handling accounts for over 38 per cent of all lost time accidents at work and instances of absence from work due to back pain increases every year.  The company sites this as a clear illustration that companies are failing in their legal duties and could be at increased risk of prosecution or expensive legal claims against them. 

Chris said:

“If employees have any kind of manual handling in the course of their work then the provision of training to ensure they are aware of the risks and how to perform safe manual handling operations is not a matter or choice but an absolute legal requirement.”

Many injuries in the workplace arise from poor layouts and storage, poor lifting techniques, lifting, pulling and pushing difficult or excessive loads and a general poor knowledge due to lack of sufficient training. 

Chris continued: 

“Manual handling accidents and injuries in the workplace could be significantly reduced by following a simple and cost effective training programme.”

Praxis42 has updated its Manual Handling course to follow the Health and Safety Executive’s Guides and Notes to ensure organisation’s are legally compliant with current Manual Handling Regulations.  The course has been developed by health and safety experts and IT elearning developers to produce a quality training experience that is extremely effective in reducing the risk of injuries.  It can be delivered online, when and when it is needed.

The aim of the course is to provide trainees with an awareness of the hazards of the workplace and precautions relating to all manual handling operations.  It offers the further benefit of a learning management system (LMS) which records all the training events and makes them available to view and manage electronically, solving any compliance record keeping problems. 

For further information please see www.praxis42.com call 0870 446 4201 or email sales@praxis42.com

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