Manual Handling

Health and Safety Tips for Warehouse and Retail Industries

Forklift Safety

Health and Safety Tips for Warehouse and Retail Industries Guest Post Most of the accidents that occur in the warehouse and retail industry in the UK can be prevented if proper health and safety regulations are followed. In the UK more than 2,300 warehouse injuries are reported each year, although the actual figure could be [...]

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Push–Pull–Carry Calculator

Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation

  Push–Pull–Carry Calculator Just found this really neat little manual handling tool that can be used as an educational tool to assess the risks of manual handling tasks to ensure they are carried out safely. The safety tool is not a regulatory requirement but assessing and controlling these risks is and this tool will assist [...]

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Ruth’s Top 7 Back Injury Prevention Tips

Manual Handling

The Most Important Back Injury Prevention Tips – Become an Industrial Athlete. Another great article from Ruth Jenkins from SINA Solutions Think about the safety stats on your site or at your workplace. Who  in your workgroup has hurt their backs? Or have you hurt your back? Your back is so important! Do you think [...]

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Ergonomic Workstation Assessment

Ergonomic Assessment and Evaluation

Ergonomic Workstation Assessment Watch this space for a new resources to assist you to perform an ergonomic workstation assessment or evaluation. Over time, we will be providing free tools and ergonomic evaluation templates, checklists and information on how to properly set up your workstation including the benefits of saddle chairs and other ergonomic furniture. Need [...]

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The hard data on fixing soft tissue injury

Job Hazard Analysis

The hard data on fixing soft tissue injury: Australia’s most common workplace injuries – sprains and strains – are also our most stubborn, barely having changed over the last decade but one program backed by hard data is making a difference. Onsite Health Solutions will present the results of its SafeSpine program at the Queensland Safety [...]

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FREE HEALTH AND SAFETY TOOLS

Free Downloads

Advanced Safety Systems Australia now have a FREE HEALTH AND SAFETY TOOLS DOWNLOAD LIBRARY Visit their WEBSITE and click on the very obvious links to the library Their library provides a pretty useful set of safety and risk management tools including: JOB SAFETY ANALYSIS SAFETY SIGN KIT SAFE WORK METHOD STATEMENT RISK ASSESMENT TOOL MANUAL [...]

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Manual handling – taking care of your spine

Manual Handling

Manual handling – taking care of your spine The spine has lot more bones than the leg and arm has. This means that the spine has less strength and a lot more joints that can be injured. Don’t wreck your spine. You can’t get a new one! Manual handling training provides workers with the knowledge [...]

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Manual handling training shows how to avoid injury

Manual Handling

If you work in any job that requires manual handling, you may need a manual handling certificate. Manual handling training will equip you with the knowledge to be able to assess your manual handling tasks for conditions such as these: Forceful muscular exertions Forceful muscular exertions place high loads on muscles, tendons, ligaments, joints and [...]

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Manual handling training – what are your obligations

Manual Handling

photo credit: c2k2eManual handling training – what are your obligations? If your work involves manual handling, you may require a manual handling certificate, and need to complete a manual handling course. Your employer is required to protect you from manual handling injuries. At the same time, you have a general duty to take reasonable care [...]

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Lifting Safety Slogans

Ergonomics

[picappgallerysingle id="7221357"] Lifting Safety Slogans According to a 2009 OSHA report, back injuries are the number one work-related injury reported (http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=FACT_SHEETS&p_id=146).  OSHA goes on to state that three-fourths of back-related injuries were lifting related, and most of the injuries were preventable through proper lifting techniques.  Of course, in reading these statistics, managers of lifting-related industries [...]

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Manual Handling Safety Tips

Manual Handling

Heavy Lifting:  Safety Techniques Everyone has had to lift something heavy in their lives, and some people have experienced back pain from improper lifting.  However, properly lifting a heavy object can save you from straining muscles or throwing your back out of alignment.  The following are some lifting techniques which can assist you in lifting [...]

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Free Manual Handling Risk Assessment Tool

Free Safety Stuff

National Standard and Code of Practice for Manual Tasks declared The Australian Safety and Compensation Council (ASCC) declared the National Standard for Manual Tasks (2007) and the National Code of Practice for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders from Performing Manual Tasks at Work (2007) on 22 August 2007. The aim of the revised standard and [...]

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Downside of sitting on our Backsides

Ergonomics

We recently wrote about the risk of DVT to Office workers. Here is a recent article from the Canadian Centre for Health and Safety Downside of Sitting on Our Backsides Risks of sitting too long Taking the stairs instead of the elevator, trips to the gym, lunch hour walks – the value of exercise is [...]

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Preventing Back Injury

Manual Handling

Learn to Prevent Back Injury by AgSafe Article provided by Warriors 4 Safety The following safety module is intended to be used as a refresher safety awareness session and is in no way to be used as a substitute for job training nor proper equipment use. Your backbone is made up of 24 individual bones [...]

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