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Posts Tagged ‘Manual Handling’
An excellent video on safe manual handling, focusing on safe lifting to avoid back pain, from Star Leasing, a US industrial equipment hire company.
The video provides a guide to the maximum weight that can be lifted by one person, an overview of ergonomic workplace tools that save manual handling, plus a series of steps to follow before lifting any heavy objects: size up the load; test the load; and finally the lift.
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Ergonomics consultancy System Concepts has announced new dates for its 2010 Industrial Ergonomics training, in association with US firm Humantech.
Following a pilot course last year, the ergonomics course will be running again on:
- 20 and 21 April 2010
- 2 and 3 November 2010
The course teaches skills and tools to help delegates make simple and effective ergonomic improvements in any industrial environment. These aim to: improve product quality and productivity; improved morale; and reduce injuries and illness.
Communications systems installer Telent has reduced manual handling in its urban traffic division after installing the Penny Hydraulics Load Lift on 12 of its support vehicles.
The system will allow Tenant operatives to lift heavy cable reels more efficiently and avoid the need for manual handling.
“We wanted to address and reduce manual handling in this part of the business,” says Keith Higginbotham, general manager of traffic technology at Telent. “The Load Lifts have been very well received and we see them as important elements of our team’s equipment.”
The Health & Safety Executive has issued a safety warning after a 36-year-old man was crushed by the descending boom of the telehandler he was operating.
The man was thought to have been leaning through the broken window aperture of the telehandler at the time. It is not known where the incident took place.
This is the third such fatal accident in the last seven years.
Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust has improved manual handling efficiency and reduced the risk of accidents when moving gas cylinders, thanks to an electric-operated gas bottle mover from MasterMover.
“Since investing in the gas bottle mover from MasterMover, the hospital has benefited from a much safer workplace for both patients and staff,” says Paul Moon, portering manager at Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust.
“Moving gas cylinders around the hospital is absolutely critical. It is important to be able to respond quickly if the A&E department, for example, requests an oxygen cylinder urgently. We need to be able to transfer that bottle from our central gas bottle store to the A&E department quickly and safely.”
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992, as amended in 2002 (‘the Regulations’) apply to a wide range of manual handling activities, including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling or carrying. The load may be either inanimate – such as a box or a trolley, or animate – a person or an animal. This guidance gives useful practical advice for employers, managers, safety representatives and individual employees on how to reduce the risk of injury from manual handling.