Lesson 5: Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- Outlines duties to protect employees from the risk of injury through manual handling in the workplace
Employer duties: Avoid, assess, reduce
- Avoid unnecessary tasks
- Assess tasks that canu2019t be avoided
- Reduce risk to lowest possible level
- Review to check measures are effective & provide IIT
- Employee duties to cooperate. identify hazardous handling activities and not to put others at risk
