Safe Manual Handling: 3 Steps to a Safer Workplace

In the past safe manual handling training was all about his to lift things correctly.  However current practice is to minimise the risk of manual handling injury through a 3 step process:

1.   Identify hazardous manual handling tasks

2.   Assess risks involved in hazardous tasks

3.   Risk control - measures to reduce or eliminate risks

With the aid of an ergonomist and a physiotherapist, this program demonstrates how to make a workplace safer using some basic principles and procedures included:

• Statistics on workplace injuries in australia

• Employee & employer responsibilities on workplace safety

• What to do if your workplace is unsafe

• What to do if your are injured at work

• Descriptions of common dangerous actions

• Examples of dangerous situations and how to kame them safer