A core interactive course of 11 interactions and 7 validated competencies where learners assess real lifts and workstations for load, posture, frequency, and reach. It builds the habit of adjusting the task or technique before a musculoskeletal injury accumulates.
Musculoskeletal injuries (MSIs) — sprains, strains, and related disorders of the muscles, tendons, nerves, and joints — happen in every kind of work, and they build up silently over time. This course teaches every worker to recognize the MSI risk factors (force, repetition, awkward and static postures, contact stress, and vibration); to handle materials safely (plan the lift, lift with the legs and keep the load close, never twist, push rather than pull, use team lifts and material-handling aids, and store loads at a sensible height); to set up a workstation and task in neutral postures and adjust the work to the worker; to apply the hierarchy of controls (eliminate or engineer the handling…
Equip every worker to recognize musculoskeletal-injury risk factors, lift and handle materials safely, set up their workstation and tasks in neutral postures, and report early symptoms — so that preventable, cumulative MSIs do not happen.
Workers who lift, carry, push, pull, or perform repetitive manual tasks and want to protect against musculoskeletal injury.
Passing the final test issues a QR-verified certificate, valid for one year. Review training at least annually and whenever tasks, tools, workstations, or materials change.
This certificate records completion of knowledge training in ergonomics and manual material handling, and it records the Trained state only. It does not establish that the holder can physically perform a safe lift, a team lift or a push-pull task, or that a workstation has been set up correctly: before the work, the employer must observe the worker planning and completing a safe lift, using the material-handling aids provided on site, and working in neutral postures, and sign that observation off as Competent. There is no single safe maximum weight in Manitoba law — the risk depends on the whole task, so the employer's own task assessment under Part 8 of MR 217/2006 always governs.
About 1 hour 10 minutes online, over 5 modules, at your own pace. It ends with a final test that needs 80% to pass.
One year from the day you pass. Review training at least annually and whenever tasks, tools, workstations, or materials change.
Manitoba Workplace Safety and Health Act (C.C.S.M. c. W210); Manitoba WSH Regulation MR 217/2006; CSA Z412 — Office Ergonomics: An Application Standard for Workplace Ergonomics; and 2 more listed on this page.
This certificate records completion of knowledge training in ergonomics and manual material handling, and it records the Trained state only. It does not establish that the holder can physically perform a safe lift, a team lift or a push-pull task, or that a workstation has been set up correctly: before the work, the employer must observe the worker planning and completing a safe lift, using the material-handling aids provided on site, and working in neutral postures, and sign that observation off as Competent. There is no single safe maximum weight in Manitoba law — the risk depends on the whole task, so the employer's own task assessment under Part 8 of MR 217/2006 always governs.