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GWO Basic Safety Training / V20 23022026
10. BSTR MANUAL HANDLING MODULE
10.1 Aims and Objectives for the BSTR Manual Handling Module The aim of this module is to refresh the participants prior experiences, knowledge, skills, and abilities to enable participants, through practical training, to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injuries for wind technicians in the wind industry and enable participants to perform their tasks and activities in the safest possible way when working in a wind turbine environment.
After having successfully completed this BSTR Manual Handling module, the participants will have the ability to:
1) Take responsibility for the use of essential manual handling principles to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury when performing physical tasks and activities in the wind industry (Ability, intermediate level)
Definition of manual handling: The transporting or supporting of a load (including lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying, or moving by hand or by bodily force)
Note
10.2 Duration of the BSTR Manual Handling Module
The total contact time for completing the BSTR Manual Handling module is set to be 3 hours and 0 minutes.
The training provider must not exceed the time per day given in the table below.
Maximum Duration Per Day
Contact time
8 hours
Total training day
10 hours
Table 10.2.1 - Maximum durations for training day
10.3 Manual Handling Module Participant Ratio
Practical ratios indicate the maximum number of participants to be supervised by an instructor during each activity.
Module
Session Practical
Instructor to Participant Ratio
BSTR Manual handling
1:6
Table 10.3.1 - GWO Manual Handling Module instructor to participant ratio
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