Manual Handling Assessments

Most Employers are aware of the legal requirements to complete a general risk assessment.  However, where that general risk assessment indicates a potential risk of injury from manual handling of loads, then employers must attempt to do the following.

Firstly to try and avoid hazardous manual handling operations so far as is reasonably practicable; Where this cannot be achieved and a risk of injury remains then the employer must ASSESS any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided; Following these assessments it is then a requirement to try and REDUCE the risk of injury to the lowest level possible.
First Health and Safety’s Consultants can help you complete these manual handling assessment tasks. Our assessments will establish the full range of manual handling risks to which your employees are exposed and then illustrate the necessary steps to eliminate or reduce them.  The assessment will identify the different types of manual handling problems that can be foreseen from the various operations and recommend measures necessary to deal with them.