Most employees nowadays will use some form of display screen equipment (DSE) or portable display screen equipment in their work, whether it’s a traditional desktop computer, a laptop or tablet. The use of any of these devices can lead to pain, discomfort, fatigue or...
Health and safety regulations apply to the handling of people as well as inanimate objects. When lifting and moving people, you need to be careful of their safety as well as that of those doing the moving. Handling people in operating theatres adds extra hazards to...
Set out below are the questions most often asked of Alastair Bromhead and his trainers by people who haven’t completed one of their training courses. What should be taken into consideration when assessing manual handling risks? Around 40 factors can contribute...
An employee of a major high street bank recently received £19,000 in compensation for a back injury. The employee had been working for the bank for two years and during that time, her work involved lifting bags of heavy coins. Her back injury was so severe that she...
The importance of good training in the manual handling of people cannot be emphasised enough. Recent figures issued by the Health and Safety Executive indicate that, in the year 2010/11, 12% of all reported workplace manual handling injuries involved medical or care...
According to the Labour Force Survey carried out each quarter by the Office of National Statistics, there are around 60,000 manual handling injuries per year in UK workplaces, although reports from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) indicate that these are not...
