Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess manual handling risks
- Analyse physical effort requirements of job
- Determine time/effort components of physical effort
- Break required movement pattern down into movement components
- Determine time and effort requirements of movements
- Develop alternative movement patterns
- Determine time and effort requirements of alternative movements
- Determine handling aids required to assist movement
- Determine preferred movement pattern(s)
- Analyse ergonomics of physical effort
- Optimise application of physical effort