Reduce Or Eliminate Manual Handling Risks In Your Workplace
The most useful way to reduce or eliminate manual handling risks in your workplace costs nothing and takes an afternoon. Walk the floor and watch the work.
Risk assessment forms record what the task is supposed to involve. A walkthrough shows what people actually do when they are short-staffed, running late, or working around equipment that is broken.
Watch for the tells. Anyone bending below knee height repeatedly. Loads carried further than a few steps. Equipment parked somewhere inconvenient and therefore unused. Two-person tasks being done by one. Improvised solutions, a box used as a step, a door propped open.
Each of those is a control failure with a fix attached, and none would appear on a form.
Do it at a busy time, not a quiet one.
Safe Work Australia publishes guidance on hazardous manual tasks. This is general information rather than legal advice, and obligations vary by state and territory.
See Sentrient’s manual handling course and incident reporting software.
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