Manual Handling at Work

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The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 regulate 'manual handling operations' which means transporting, supporting, lifting, putting down, pushing pulling carrying or moving a load by bodily force. The Regulations provide that employers must avoid the need for their employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of injury, so far as is reasonably practicable. If this is not possible, each employer must, make a suitable and sufficient assessment of all such manual handling operations to be undertaken by them. The Health and Safety Executive suggest the use of the undernoted diagram as a risk assessment guide:

Figure 2: Lifting and Lowering