Accidents at work industrial injuries - Manual handling operations

Many thousands of people are injured in the workplace every day. Despite huge strides made during the last few decades in improving safety, accidents at work are all too common.

Here we discuss the manual handling operations and lifting regulations that apply in the workplace.

"Manual handling operations" loosely defined means the transporting of a load by hand or by bodily force - this includes actions such as lifting, pulling, pushing, carrying or moving)

Manual handling accidents account for almost one third of all accidents at work. Employees lifting excessive weights or being unable to cope with the strain certain functions inevitably put on the body.

The regulations require employers to:

Avoid the need for hazardous manual handling so far as it is reasonable to do so.

Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling that cannot be avoided

Reduce the risk of any potentially hazardous manual handling in the workplace

Employees themselves must:

Follow appropriate systems of work laid down for their safety.

Make proper use of the equipment provided for their safety.

Co-operate with their employer at all times regarding such matters and inform the employer if they identify a hazard.

Finally, they must not, through their actions, put at risk any fellow workers.

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The duty lies with the employer to avoid accidents and make the workplace as safe as it can reasonably be. Any failure to comply with this duty will result in an accident claim being made for relevant compensation.

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