A practical guide.

Overview

Provides guidance to help reduce the number of manual handling injuries currently occuring in the industry. It describes the costs associated with these injuries, both in financial and human terms, and includes worked examples of assessments for ten common tasks. It will be of direct practical use to employers, managers, engineers and safety representatives. Contents: The size of the problem; Legal duties and guidance; Which are the high risk operations? Where do I start? Involving the workforce; Making the business case for investment; Case studies; Handling bales of polymer; Handling sacks of powders; Recycling sheets of uncured rubber back into the mill; Work at a two roll mill; Repeated lifting of moulds in and out of loose mould presses; Removal of flashing and trimming; Handling tyre castings during retreading; Tyre building; Manual stacking of commercial tyres; Palletising sheet product.