A procedure for manual lifting load assessment that people cannot follow under time pressure is not a control. Safety performance on load assessment degrades quietly during periods when nothing goes wrong. The difficulty is not agreeing that the occupational health and safety capability matters — it is deciding what to stop doing to make room for it. Mature organisations treat manual lifting load assessment as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. The programme takes participants through this area of occupational health and safety end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about load assessment. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a safety procedure for manual lifting load assessment as they go. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on load assessment are used deliberately. Participants finish with a short, specific brief on this part of occupational health and safety ready to put in front of a decision maker.
Expected Learning Outcomes
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Integrate manual lifting load assessment into the management of change process.
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Adapt recognised practice on load assessment to local constraints without hollowing it out.
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Carry out a structured risk assessment of manual lifting load assessment and rank findings by consequence.
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Plan the handover of load assessment so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
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Design the permit and control regime appropriate to the hazards in manual lifting load assessment.
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Write procedures for load assessment that can be followed under real operating pressure.
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Handle the trade-offs in manual lifting load assessment between speed, cost and assurance explicitly rather than implicitly.
Who Should Attend
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Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing manual lifting load assessment.
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Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for load assessment.
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Human resources staff handling the people consequences of manual lifting load assessment.
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Team leaders and supervisors who put load assessment into practice day to day.
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Occupational health practitioners monitoring exposure from manual lifting load assessment.
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Procurement and contracting staff whose agreements set obligations around load assessment.
Course Modules
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01
Manual lifting load assessment: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The hard cases in manual lifting load assessment and how to reason about them
Remove steps in manual lifting load assessment that add effort without adding assurance.
Test that protective equipment specified for load assessment fits and is maintained.
Agree what will be standardised in manual lifting load assessment and what will not.
Establish what evidence demonstrates load assessment is under control.
Session 2Auditing load assessment in the field rather than in the file
Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for manual lifting load assessment are proven before work starts.
Distinguish symptoms from causes when load assessment underperforms.
Identify the data already collected that bears on manual lifting load assessment.
Check the procedure for load assessment against how the work is actually done.
02
Load assessment: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Who is competent to work on load assessment, and how you know
Collect evidence on the present handling of manual lifting load assessment before proposing changes.
Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for load assessment.
Investigate the last incident involving manual lifting load assessment to root cause, not to immediate cause.
Assess long-term health exposure created by load assessment and arrange surveillance.
Session 2Writing a procedure for load assessment people can follow at 3 a.m.
Plan the sequence in which improvements to manual lifting load assessment will be introduced.
Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for load assessment, do not just publish it.
Ask the people doing manual lifting load assessment what makes the procedure hard to follow.
Apply management of change to any modification affecting load assessment.
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Load assessment: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Why a good control on load assessment stops being used
Establish the boundary of manual lifting load assessment and record what sits outside it.
Reduce the variation in how load assessment is carried out between teams.
Verify contractor competence and method statements for manual lifting load assessment.
Agree the indicators that will show whether load assessment is improving.
Session 2Moving manual lifting load assessment from approval to execution
Set leading indicators for manual lifting load assessment that predict rather than count.
Confirm that contractual obligations around load assessment are understood.
Close out corrective actions on manual lifting load assessment with a named owner and date.
Build the competence framework that supports load assessment.
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Load assessment: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1The decisions in load assessment that cannot be delegated
Check that manual lifting load assessment still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in load assessment is current.
Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in manual lifting load assessment.
Record who is authorised to work on load assessment and when authorisation expires.
Session 2Investigating an incident involving load assessment without hunting for blame
Verify permits covering manual lifting load assessment are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to load assessment.
Audit application of manual lifting load assessment controls at the workface.
Check that lessons from load assessment reached other sites doing similar work.
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Complete Training Kit
Coffee Break
Closing Ceremony
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