Health & Safety Update – | Consensus HR in Herts & Beds
Manual handling at work: guidance on the law:
As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace.
You can find help with preventing these sort of risks in your workplace on our manual handling webpages.
We have a range of information and guidance for employers, including sections on assessing manual handling and training for workers.
There are also links to a variety of useful resources, which include our free-to-download publications:
Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER):
:Make sure you comply with LOLER regulations and lift work equipment safely.
HSE’s website has guidance on the safe use of lifting equipment, which sets out what businesses should do to comply with LOLER. The webpages include:
- an overview of LOLER
- guidance on safe lifting by machines
- how to thoroughly examine lifting equipment
- the planning and organising of lifting operations
Steel company fined £100,000 for lifting activity failures:
A worker was crushed and suffered multiple rib fractures as well as internal injuries during this incident. HSE’s investigation found the company had failed to ensure that the lifting activity was properly planned by a competent person, or carried out in a safe manner.
You can get further information, and view a video of CCTV footage of the incident, at our press release: CCTV captures moment welder crushed at shipyard.
As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace.
You can find help with preventing these sort of risks in your workplace on our manual handling webpages.
We have a range of information and guidance for employers, including sections on assessing manual handling and training for workers.
There are also links to a variety of useful resources, which include our free-to-download publications:
Health & Safety Advice is provided by the Health & Safety Executive (HSE) and our partner company.
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