A GUIDE TO MANUAL HANDLING AND LIFTING TECHNIQUES

WORLD DAY FOR SAFETY AND HEALTH AT WORK 2010: EMERGING RISKS AND NEW PATTERNS OF PREVENTION IN A CHANGING WORLD OF WORK

HSE ISSUES WARNING ABOUT LEAD POISONING

A Guide to Manual Handling and Lifting Techniques

If you lift a heavy object carelessly you can end up pulling muscles or even worse, suffer long-term damage to your back or upper limbs.
So it’s vital that if your job involves lifting, you know how to do it properly. Many employers have short training sessions for this but if not, they should at least be able to give you a leaflet with the main rules for manual handling.

Manual handling can be described as lowering, lifting, pulling, pushing, holding, restraining, carrying, throwing or handling.

75% of injuries caused by manual lifting could be prevented. In the food and drinks industry, manual handling and lifting causes 30% of all acute injuries.

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Source: www.workplacesafetyadvice.co.uk

World Day for Safety and Health at Work 2010: Emerging risks and new patterns of prevention in a changing world of work

April 28 is the annual World Day for Safety and Health at work. Since 2003, the ILO has observed World Day, stressing the prevention of accidents and ill-health at work through social dialogue and tripartism.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work is supporting the ILO by launching its latest healthy workplaces campaign. April 28 is also the day workers’ organisations remember those who have died at work.

The ILO theme this year is emerging risks and patterns of prevention in a changing world of work, looking at current global challenges and the new context of occupational safety and health practice.

The world of work in Europe is dynamic. Not only are there newly emerging hazards and risks, but also the relationship between employer and worker, the demographic of the European workforce, patterns of work, and types of work are changing. These changes in turn affect how occupational safety and health has to be managed at workplace, regional, national, and international levels.

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Source: osha.europa.eu

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HSE Issues Warning about Lead Poisoning

In the summer of 2008, workers at a project site of a Perthshire company were exposed to lead dust for few months. As a consequence of this exposure two workers had to be admitted to hospital due to serious lead poisoning. The families of the workers were also affected as the dust was spread to the homes from the workers’ overalls.

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Source: www.healthandsafetynews.co.uk

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