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No law sets a maximum weight. These are the guideline figures and how to read them.
Lifting height decides how much can be handled. The guideline is highest at waist height, 25 kg for men and 16 kg for women, lower between knee and shoulder at 20 kg and 13 kg, and lowest near the floor and above the shoulder at 10 kg and 7 kg.
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The manual handling training is fully accredited and compliant with Irish legislation. Businesses in Ireland, from construction and pharma to healthcare, hospitality, logistics and agriculture, rely on it every single week.
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No. The law sets no maximum weight. It requires the employer to assess each handling task and reduce the risk. The guideline figures used in Irish guidance are 25 kg for men and 16 kg for women at waist height, close to the body, and they fall sharply when the load is held away from the body, low down or above the shoulder.
Less than the two could lift separately. As a guideline a two person team can handle about two thirds of the sum of what each could lift alone, and a three person team about half, because effort is never shared perfectly.
The employer must assess the risk as soon as they are told of the pregnancy. Handling capacity falls as pregnancy advances and for some months after the birth, so heavy, frequent or awkward handling should be reduced or removed and the assessment reviewed regularly.
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The manual handling course at Irish Manual Handling fits Ireland working life perfectly. From Dublin's construction cranes and Cork's pharma plants to Galway's medtech campuses, Limerick's manufacturing belt and the farms, hotels, warehouses and hospitals in every county between, Irish workplaces run on certified, compliant staff. Instead of losing a day to a classroom, learners in Ireland complete the full accredited training online, in about 45 minutes, from home or straight from the workplace.
Local employers know exactly what they are looking at when your certificate arrives: CPD Certified, RoSPA approved, HSA aligned training from a provider used by businesses across every county in Ireland. The unique verification code on every certificate makes checks instant, whether you work in Dublin, Cork or Galway.
For businesses, the free Employer Dashboard turns a team rollout into one afternoon of work: bulk registration, live progress and every manual handling certificate in one clean screen, with automatic volume discounts applied at checkout.
Most providers sell manual handling as one course among dozens. At Irish Manual Handling it is the entire business, and the depth shows: every lift, every load assessment and every posture rule gets proper treatment instead of a passing mention.
The syllabus tracks exactly what the HSA expects: how handling injuries happen, TILE assessment before every lift, the eight principles of safe manual handling, pushing and pulling, team lifts and mechanical aids.
The result is a manual handling course that employers recognise as genuinely specialist, backed by a certificate they trust on sight.
Every lesson streams on any device, every pause saves your place, and nothing needs installing. HD video, animation and interactive questions turn spine anatomy, TILE assessment and lifting technique into knowledge that sticks.
Start the manual handling training on a quiet night shift, continue on the bus home and finish over the weekend. Progress syncs across every device automatically.
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Pass the assessment and the digital manual handling certificate is generated on the spot, aligned with Irish legislation and recognised across Ireland, the UK and Europe.
It lives permanently in your account for re-download during audits, job applications and insurance renewals, and its unique verification code lets any employer confirm it instantly.
On a CV, the manual handling certificate is one of the most requested credentials in Irish hiring, often the difference between two otherwise identical candidates.
Every module comes from licensed, Chartered (CMIOSH) health and safety consultants who have assessed real handling tasks in real Irish workplaces.
That experience shows: you learn to judge a load honestly, set your feet and back correctly, use team lifts properly and reach for mechanical aids at the right moments.
Content is re-reviewed against current legislation and HSA guidance, so the manual handling course never drifts out of date.
A classroom manual handling day costs far more than the ticket price: travel, cover staff and lost hours. The online manual handling course removes every one of those costs.
Staff certify from home, the office or the warehouse floor, starting the moment you enrol them, and managers see each completion in real time.
Pricing is honest: one figure covers the full course, unlimited retakes and the instant manual handling certificate. No add ons, ever.
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Volume discounts apply automatically at checkout, and expiry reminders arrive before anyone lapses, keeping the training register permanently inspection ready.
Warehouses, care providers, retailers and construction firms across Ireland run their manual handling compliance through us year after year.
Legally, anyone whose work involves lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling loads: the 2005 Act and the 2007 Regulations put the duty on every employer, and HSA inspectors ask for the training records.
Practically, that means warehouse operatives and delivery drivers, healthcare workers and carers, retail and hospitality staff, construction workers, cleaners and the office employee who shifts archive boxes twice a week.
New starters need it at induction; everyone else needs a refresher every 3 years. If your hands move loads at work, this specialist course applies to you.
No law sets a maximum weight. These are the guideline figures and how to read them.
The body is strongest between the knuckles and the elbows, roughly from mid thigh to waist height. Lifts that start or finish there carry the highest guideline, 25 kg for men and 16 kg for women.
Between knee and mid thigh, and between elbow and shoulder, the guideline is 20 kg and 13 kg. Near the floor and above the shoulder it is 10 kg and 7 kg. A lift that travels from floor to shoulder passes through the weakest zones twice, which is why storage height is one of the most effective things to change.
Above the shoulders the arms are weak, the load is hard to control and the back arches. The guideline weight for a load handled above shoulder height is 10 kg for men and 7 kg for women held close, and half that at arm's length.
The guideline figures for lifting and lowering depend on where the hands are. With the load held close to the body:
With the load held at arm's length the figures fall to 5, 10, 15, 10 and 5 kg for men and to 3, 7, 10, 7 and 3 kg for women. If the hands pass through more than one zone, the lowest figure applies.
Neither the General Application Regulations 2007 nor any other Irish law sets a maximum weight that a person may lift at work. The directive behind the regulations chose a different approach: a fixed number would be wrong for most situations, because the same weight can be safe at waist height and dangerous at arm's length, from the floor or forty times an hour.
What the law requires instead is a risk assessment of each task. The guideline weights help with that assessment by showing when a lift is likely to be low risk and when it needs a closer look.
The law requires a risk assessment, not a number.
The guideline for men and for women at waist height, close to the body.
The figures fall sharply at arm's length, at floor level and above the shoulder.
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