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Manual handling basics - Q&A session

These free online Q&A sessions provide a unique opportunity to ask our health and safety experts questions and seek advice about how to manage manual handling risks in your workplace.

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Overview

Manual handling basics - Q&A sessions are an opportunity to discuss the advice, resources and tools presented in the Manual handling basics program in more detail with our health and safety experts. The content will be led by the questions asked on the day.

Why attend?

By attending a Q&A session you can:

  • ask an expert in health and safety questions about hazardous manual handling in your workplace
  • get tailored advice about how to identify and manage risks associated with hazardous manual handling in your workplace
  • hear other attendees’ experiences in applying learnings from the workshop
  • learn from real-life hazardous manual handling case studies.

These sessions are highly recommended if you have attended Manual handling basics and want to embed changes in your workplace.

Meet our experts

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Alex Finlay

Senior Ergonomist

Alex Finlay is a highly experienced physiotherapist and ergonomist with a strong focus on worker rehab and ergonomic assessments – especially in manufacturing and transport. Alex spent 7 years at Ford Motor Company, 20 years in private practice and the last 13 years at WorkSafe Victoria – 6 as a general inspector and now 7 years in his current role as a senior ergonomist.

Peter McCubbery

Senior Ergonomist / Inspector

Peter McCubbery is a senior ergonomist and inspector with over 20 years of experience at WorkSafe across various sectors including manufacturing, warehousing, transport, government, agriculture and retail.

Rachael Luck

Physiotherapist and Senior Ergonomist

Rachael is a physiotherapist and Senior Ergonomist within the Ergonomics and Human Factors Unit at WorkSafe Victoria. Rachael provides specialist knowledge and advice in the human factors and ergonomics (HFE) fields, participating in the identification of workplace interventions relevant to the management and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders and poor health outcomes.

Eligibility criteria

These sessions are suitable and reserved for participants of the Manual handling basics program.

To ensure availability for Manual handling basics participants, we kindly ask that you refrain from sharing these details with colleagues.

Session dates

Date Time Location Registration link
Tuesday 16 June 2026 10:00 am – 11:00 am Microsoft Teams Register here

More information

Attendees may remain anonymous in the session if they wish, and sessions will not be recorded.

If you have questions about the Manual handling basics - Q&A sessions, please email: [email protected]

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