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Evidence Guide: ICPSU487C - Analyse manual handling processes

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ICPSU487C - Analyse manual handling processes

What evidence can you provide to prove your understanding of each of the following citeria?

Assess manual handling risks

  1. Identify manual handling hazards in work area
  2. Assess risks arising from those hazards
Identify manual handling hazards in work area

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Assess risks arising from those hazards

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Analyse physical effort requirements of job

  1. Determine basic manual handling requirements of job
  2. Analyse requirements in terms of components such as lift, move, place, hold
  3. Analyse items to be handled in terms such as weight, size, shape or other hazards
Determine basic manual handling requirements of job

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Analyse requirements in terms of components such as lift, move, place, hold

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Analyse items to be handled in terms such as weight, size, shape or other hazards

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Determine time/effort components of physical effort

  1. Break required movement pattern down into movement components
  2. Determine time and effort requirements for movements
  3. Develop alternative movement patterns
  4. Determine time and effort requirements for alternative movements
  5. Determine handling aids required to assist movement
  6. Determine preferred movement pattern(s)
Break required movement pattern down into movement components

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Determine time and effort requirements for movements

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Develop alternative movement patterns

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Determine time and effort requirements for alternative movements

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Determine handling aids required to assist movement

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Determine preferred movement pattern(s)

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Analyse the ergonomics of physical effort

  1. Analyse the ergonomics of the preferred movement pattern
  2. Develop substitute movements for any movement which is not ergonomically sound
  3. Determine handling aids required to improve ergonomics of required movements
Analyse the ergonomics of the preferred movement pattern

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Develop substitute movements for any movement which is not ergonomically sound

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Determine handling aids required to improve ergonomics of required movements

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Optimise application of physical effort

  1. Select movement patterns which are ergonomically sound and time and effort efficient
  2. Train all relevant people to use these methods
  3. Ensure procedures and practices reflect the optimum methods
Select movement patterns which are ergonomically sound and time and effort efficient

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Train all relevant people to use these methods

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Ensure procedures and practices reflect the optimum methods

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Assessed

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Instructions to Assessors

Evidence Guide

The Evidence Guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Overview of assessment

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Evidence of the ability to:

the competent team leader/senior operator will be able to examine any job for its physical components and then determine a better way of doing it. As a side benefit they will become more aware of poor manual handling practice and raise an alert to it. Evidence should be available of the analysis and improvements of the physical/manual handling aspects of jobs in the workplace

where evidence is from continuous improvement activities, then a range of such improvements needs to be considered to provide sufficient evidence. Where evidence is coming from one, complex improvement activity then it may provide sufficient evidence.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment must ensure:

assessment should use evidence from the analysis of real jobs or an appropriate simulation

access to a workplace which will allow the improvement of physical actions.

Method of assessment

A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit:

direct questioning combined with review of portfolios of evidence and third party workplace reports of on-the-job performance by the candidate.

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended.

Required Skills and Knowledge

Required skills

OHS in relation to operating machinery such as safely switching off machinery before cleaning is started

communication of ideas and information by determining time/effort components of physical effort

collecting, analysing and organising information by determining time/effort components of physical effort

planning and organising activities by selecting movement patterns which are ergonomically sound and time and effort efficient

teamwork when determining time/effort components of physical effort

mathematical ideas and techniques by optimising application of physical effort

problem-solving skills by optimising application of physical effort

use of technology by optimising application of physical effort

Required knowledge

communication

analysis

teamwork

basic mathematics

problem solving

relevant OHS acts and regulations as applied to manual handling

principles of efficient movement

principles of efficient job and work method design

principles of work analysis

principles of ergonomics/safe movement

Range Statement

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Manual handling hazards may include:

manual handling hazards need to be defined in terms of the relevant OHS acts, regulations, codes of practice, industry standards and best practice.

Procedures may include:

all work instructions, standard operating procedures, formulas/recipes, batch sheets, temporary instructions and similar instructions provided for the smooth running of the plant. They may be written, oral, computer-based or in some other form

good operating practice as may be defined by industry codes of practice (eg Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), Responsible Care) and government regulations.