Health and safety legislation requires that all education and care staff engaged in manual tasks at work must be given training in safe manual handling techniques to minimise injury.

The Manual Handling in Childcare course is designed to meet these requirements and educate those working with young children to carry out their day to day roles and responsibilities safely.

This course is consistent with the Model Code of Practice for Hazardous Manual Tasks developed by Safe Work Australia.

For Individuals:

• Educators and carers working daily in the early learning environment.
• Those providing services to the industry who visit the early learning environment, especially if having contact with children (e.g. photography services; specialised program providers)

• Needing to ensure staff are appropriately trained as required by SafeWork
• That want a simple and easy way to manage staff courses with a employer account (simple invoicing, access to staff certificates and personalised training page)

The Manual Handling in Childcare training program is broken into two parts:

• PART 1 - The what, why, who and how of safe manual practices including relevant legislation, anatomy, how injuries occur, risk assessment and reporting
• PART 2 -Care practices, safety tips, industry specific manual tasks, pregnancy considerations, physical fitness and hygiene.

The course requires:

• Access to the internet
• A computer or mobile device
• Average level language and numeracy skills