Handle with care - Intro
- Julie North
- 5 days ago
- 1 min read
Manual handling risk assessment essentials
By law, employers are required to protect employees from harm. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to:
Avoid the need for hazardous manual handling, ‘so far as is reasonably practicable’.
Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling that can’t be avoided.
Reduce the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling, ‘so far as is reasonably practicable’.
The purpose of the risk assessment is to identify what measures must be put in place to protect people and reduce the risk of injury.
Guidance from the Health and Safety Executive suggests that when assessing a handling operation, the following should be considered; the task, the load, the working environment, individual capability, and other factors such as clothing or footwear.
It’s common to use the acronym TILE (task, individual, load and environment) as a framework for manual handling assessments. Keep your eyes peeled - over the next four weeks on our website insight page and our LinkedIn page, we’ll share our tips for manual handling assessments using it.
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