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Teaching Manual Handling and Working at Height

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Good afternoon all,

Could someone answer the following question factually please?

What course do I need to do so i can teach manual handling and working at height for internal employees and subcontractors?

I have DTTT (Train the trainer)
7 Years teaching experience
Nebosh Level 3 in construction (NGC1 and NCC1 and 2) (Other higher level quals but not MH or WAH).
H&S experience (Working at Height and Manual handling)

Could you point me in the right direction to get the relevant course so i can teach in house/out house for our subbies please?

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Teaching Manual Handling and Working at Height

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Hi TH,

for me I would be looking for the following:

1. Very good knowledge of the subject matter as you will be asked questions so you will need to be able to answer them
2. AET - Award in Education and Training course, was previously PTLLS
3. Understudying the regs and what is required from them as they jump into Risk Assessment, PPE (last resort) etc
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Hi Safety,

The DTTT is the Btech level 4 in teaching in the life long learning sector ( as well as level 3 in coaching and mentoring). I believe PTLLS wand DTLLs etc (Possibly spelt incorrectly) were parts of the DTTT which were shorter courses. Again, if i have miss understood this then my apologies it was a long time ago I did the course. But the course was designed for me to teach high level engineering courses, as well as health and safety syllabuses for the MoD.

If I got the content for a MH course and WAH, with experience within the subject, could I deliver the content? or would i need to sit a specialist course?
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Hi TH,

Yes I don't see any reason why you cant deliver training with the qualifications you have and knowledge of the subject matter.
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Hi S,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I shall look more into it.

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Re: Teaching Manual Handling and Working at Height

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Unless something has changed, or you are talking about specialist work, you don't need any course in order to provide training on MH and WaH.

A competent trainer could very easily be someone who has plenty of experience, knows the material and has a great natural teaching technique.

If you are looking to protect yourselves, I don't see why competency couldn't easily be shown by asking a sample of trainees some follow-up questions the day after the training, and confirming that they learned what they were supposed to have learned.
We often think that when we have completed our study of one we know all about two, because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that we still have to make a study of 'and.'
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Re: Teaching Manual Handling and Working at Height

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Hi,

Just a quick update on this.

I spoke to the tech team at IOSH (Being a member). How they explained it I felt made perfect sense.

If it is a Health and Safety course to do a specific job 'Safely', then the course needs to be accredited. I could write the course and get it signed off fit for purpose and that would be acceptable. As said above, you would require to carry out a test of some kind, testing knowledge. You could then award a certificate.

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If it is an awareness course, then you can deliver it if you are competent, and give a certificate however it is a certificate of attendance.

So to be safe I have added MH and SAH awareness to my induction (No certificate) and also outsourced the MH to an accredited provider, as we already do specific training for working at heights for the work we do. However, my awareness covers the low risk/minor areas which could happen but doesn't.

Again, I've only gone into detail on this just in case others find themselves in the same postion.

Take care

TH
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