Type Case study
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LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
A podiatrist in her early 40s has been working with neck problems for 8 years. As a result of the nature of her work, her condition has been exacerbated by adopting awkward postures and manoeuvring patients. This case study highlights the changes that have been and will be made to her main tasks to...
Type Case study
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LanguageEnglish
ProviderEU OSHA
The UK legislative framework addressing MSDs has been in place for nearly 40 years, and the policy approach is to inform and enable employers, encouraging them to address risks. The strategy under discussion is the latest in a series of initiatives stretching back 20 years. MSDs are addressed under...
Type Guides & Tools
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LanguageEnglish
ProviderLiberty Mutual Group
Liberty Mutual has updated the manual material handling tables originally published by Snook in 1978, and by Snook and Ciriello in 1991. The new “Liberty Mutual Manual Materials Handling Tables” provide both the male and female population percentages capable of performing manual material handling...
Type Guides & Tools
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LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
This manual is intended to help the reader on how to use a risk assessment form. It consists of two fully worked examples for both lifting and carrying as well as pushing and pulling. With these worked out forms and empty forms, the reader should be able to carry out a risk assessment with these...
Type Guides & Tools
Spojené království
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
The Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) is a tool aimed at employers, health and safety managers and safety representatives and is used by health and safety inspectors. The tool will help you assess the most common risk factors in lifting (and lowering), carrying and team handling operations...
Type Guides & Tools
Spojené království
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
This tool will help you identify high-risk pushing and pulling operations and check the effectiveness of any risk-reduction measures. There are two types of pulling and pushing operations you can assess using this tool: moving loads on wheeled equipment, such as hand trolleys, pump trucks, carts or...
Type Guides & Tools
Spojené království
LanguageEnglish
ProviderHealth and Safety Executive (HSE)
The assessment of repetitive tasks (ART) tool is designed to help you risk assess tasks that require repetitive moving of the upper limbs (arms and hands). It helps you to assess some of the common risk factors in repetitive work that contribute to the development of upper limb disorders (ULDs)...
