Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR)
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (MHOR)
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Employer Duties
Requires employers to avoid, assess and reduce the risk of injury from manual handling.
So far as is reasonably practicable, avoid the need for their employees to undertake any manual handling operations at work which involve a risk of their being injured.
Where it is not reasonably practicable:
Complete an assessment to identify risk factors associated with manual handling operations. Reviewed if no longer valid and there has been significant changes in manual handling operations.
Take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of injury associated with manual handling operations.
Take appropriate steps to provide employees with indications of the weight of load, heaviest side of load whose centre of gravity is not positioned centrally.
Employee Duties
Where manual handling operations involve a risk of injury appropriate steps must be taken by employees to reduce that risk in particular to:
Physical suitability of the employee to carry out the operations.
Clothing, footwear etc. suitable.
Employee knowledge and training.
Results of any risk assessments.
Employee is within group identified by the risk assessment.
Results of any health surveillance.
Make full and proper use of any system of work provided for use by employer i.e. follow policy, comply with risk assessment, attend training, correctly use equipment and report near misses or accidents.
One of the key tools in reducing risk of injury from manual handling is risk assessment.
Factors to consider when undertaking a manual handling risk assessment:
Suitable risk assessments completed for any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided.
Assessment completed by employees with knowledge of the operations.
Assessments should be recorded and made easily available to those carrying out the operations.
Take into account an ‘ergonomic approach’ considering:
Nature of the TASK
The LOAD
The working ENVIRONMENT
Individual CAPABILITY
OTHER FACTORS e.g. equipment
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