Safety training
GWO Basic Safety Training / V20 10032026
10. MANUAL HANDLING REFRESHER TRAINING
10.1 Aims and Objectives of the Manual Handling Refresher Training The aim of this training 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 Manual Handling Refresher Training, 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 Manual Handling Refresher Training
The total contact time for completing the Manual Handling Refresher Training 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 Refresher Training Participant Ratio
Practical ratios indicate the maximum number of participants to be supervised by an instructor during each activity.
Session
Instructor to Participant Ratio
Manual Handling Refresher Training
Practical
1:6
Table 10.3.1 - GWO Manual Handling Refresher Training instructor to participant ratio
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