Manual handling and lifting injuries at work
Workplace accidents involving the
lifting and carrying of heavy weights
Many back problems are work
related and account for lost man hours and absences from work each year.
Many jobs still involve lifting and carrying heavy objects or even moving
people, despite large scale mechanisation of many processes.
Injuries may be caused by lifting
too heavy a load or incorrectly lifting a load either by hand or bodily
force. Even bending, twisting or repeating a similar action too much can
lead to injury.
Your employer should protect you
from personal injury by reducing the risk of injury being sustained
and complying with
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations1992.
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From the official
Health & Safety Executive website:
The most recent survey of self-reported
work-related illness estimated that in
2001/02, 1.1 million people in Great Britain suffered from musculoskeletal
disorders. (MSDs) caused or made worse by their current or past work. An
estimated 12.3 million working days were lost due to these work-related MSDs. On
average each sufferer took about 20 days off in that 12-month period.
Manual handling injuries can occur wherever people are at work - on farms and
building sites, in factories, offices, warehouses, hospitals, banks,
laboratories, and while making deliveries. Heavy manual labour, awkward
postures, manual materials handling, and previous or existing injury are all
risk factors implicated in the development of MSDs. More information and advice
on MSDs is available on the HSE website, including advice on managing back pain
at work (see ‘Further
reading’). Prevention and control of MSDs, such as manual handling injuries,
The Manual
Handling Operations Regulations 1992
These require
that first and foremost employees avoid the need for their employees to
undertake manual handling that could involve injury as far as is reasonably
practicable. Perhaps by way of employing hoists or other machines that assists
the employee in their tasks.
If however it is
impracticable to totally avoid manual handling then the employer must do a risk
assessment and try and reduce the chance of injury. Any such assessment should
address the task at hand, the load to be carried, the working environment itself
and the capacity of the individual to carry out the task.
If you have had
an accident and do not feel that these Regulations were complied with or that
you had received inadequate training then please contact us for a chat today.
More pages:
Case example of an injury through defective
equipment in the workplace
Accidents
with a skip
Lifting
injury suffered at work
Types of accidents at work -
compensation
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