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Manual handling of loads
Domain: Health and safety at work => Risk factors
Grammatical category
Noun phrase
Grammar notes
Uncountable
Definition
Any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or by bodily force.

Employer's duties Each employer shall 1) so far as is reasonably practicable, avoid the need for his employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of their being injured;
2) where it is not reasonably practicable to avoid the need for his employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of their being injured;
3) make a suitable and sufficient assessment of all such manual handling operations to be undertaken by them;
4) take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of injury to those employees arising out of their undertaking any such manual handling operations to the lowest level reasonably practicable;
5) take appropriate steps to provide any of those employees who are undertaking any such manual handling operations with general indications and, where it is reasonably practicable to do so, precise information on the weight of each load, and the heaviest side of any load whose centre of gravity is not positioned centrally.
Definition source
Reg. 2, 4 of The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
European legislation
Directives 89/391/EEC, 90/269/EEC
British legislation
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
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