QQI Manual Handling case studies
QQI Manual Handling · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Manual handling training in Ireland is built around a simple legal idea: employers must manage the risk of injury from lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying, and workers must be trained to do those tasks safely. A QQI-associated manual handling programme is the classroom and practical route to that competence. The QQI Manual Handling case studies are 5 cases and about 2,922 words.
1No Manual Handling Risk Assessment in a Distribution Warehouse
Brightline Distribution operates a 12-person warehouse in Tallaght. Boxes of tile adhesive weigh 25 kg and are stacked two-high on the floor; staff move about 120 boxes each per 8-hour shift by bending, lifting, and carrying up to 15 metres.
675 words, about 3 min2Resident Repositioning in a Nursing Home
Mrs A is an 82 kg resident in a 40-bed nursing home. She cannot weight-bear and needs repositioning up the bed four to six times per day.
617 words, about 3 min3Twisting While Lifting a 20 kg Bag of Compost
Declan works in a garden centre loading 20 kg bags of compost from a pallet at floor level onto a trailer bed 1.1 m high. To do this he bends forward, lifts the bag, and rotates his trunk about 45 degrees to his right to place it on the trailer.
517 words, about 3 min4Two-Person Lift of a 140 kg Pump Up a Ramp
Two maintenance workers must move a 140 kg pump from a workshop bench onto a low trolley and then up a 1:10 ramp to a plant room 20 metres away. The pump has no lifting points and its centre of gravity is offset.
570 words, about 3 min5Recurrent Back Pain and an Unreported Lifting Incident
Maria is a 45-year-old catering assistant in a school kitchen. She lifts 15 kg boxes of vegetables from a delivery pallet to a waist-high bench about 40 times per shift, and also moves 20-litre saucepans.
543 words, about 3 min