Manual Handling Training for Childcare and Early Childhood Educators

Yes. Module 6 is about lifting and carrying infants and toddlers — secure holds, keeping the child close, the one-hip carry, why two children at once is a problem — and then cots, change tables, high chairs, buggies, floor work, sleep rooms, settling a distressed child and pregnancy.

It is theory training. Your service still needs to show you its own cots, change tables and buggies, and its behaviour guidance and sleep procedures come first.

Yes. The same tasks happen in a family day care residence — cots, change surfaces, prams, floor time, settling — usually without a colleague to share a lift. The course addresses working alone, setting up a home at the right heights, and raising concerns with your scheme co-ordinator.

There is less lifting of children and more furniture and equipment. OSHC staff set up and pack down halls every day — stacked chairs, trestle tables, sports gear, craft tubs — often through doorways and out of store rooms. The modules on hazardous tasks, controls, safe movement, team lifts and equipment apply directly, and the course uses OSHC examples throughout.

Yes. Module 6 explains how pregnancy changes balance, ligaments and fatigue, and what a service should review — fewer lifts, no double carries, no lifting buggies, seated settling. Your own health professional's advice and your service's process always take precedence.

The course is evidence that you have completed manual handling theory. The Education and Care Services National Law and Regulations require safe environments and adequate supervision, and WHS law requires providers to train and instruct workers, but neither names a specific course. Your approved provider decides what training it requires and accepts.

This course is not approved, endorsed or required by ACECQA, any state or territory regulatory authority, or any WHS regulator.

Yes. It assumes no prior training and starts from what a manual task is before moving on to lifting children, room set-up, equipment and reporting.

Many students and trainees take it while studying for their Certificate III or Diploma, or before a placement, to show they understand safe manual handling principles.

Most learners allow approximately 45–60 minutes. The training and assessment are free to complete; you pay A$49 only if you pass and want the certificate.

75% on the 20-question assessment. Attempts are unlimited, and a retry only asks you to revisit the questions you got wrong.

Many providers accept it as evidence of manual handling theory knowledge, alongside their own induction, equipment instruction and supervision. Individual providers set their own requirements, so check with your director or scheme if you are unsure.

Every certificate has a unique number that an employer can verify online or by scanning the QR code.

No. Service-specific induction, instruction on your actual cots, change tables and buggies, the sleep and behaviour guidance procedures, and supervision remain essential. This course gives you the theory those sessions build on.

No. This is non-accredited online workplace training and issues a Certificate of Completion. It is separate from the nationally recognised HLTWHS005 Conduct manual tasks safely unit and does not provide a Statement of Attainment.