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Getting manual handling activities right in the workplace is very important – injuries are easy to sustain when manual handling tasks are not carried out safely. That’s why there are specific regulations called The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.

But it isn’t just the practice of lifting and carrying safely that has to be done right – the route in which a load must be moved also needs to be risk assessed as well. When carrying a load, especially a large one, your view may be restricted and you’re probably concentrating on moving the load safely and not what’s beneath you on the ground.
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Whilst the use of the phrase “fallen off the back of a lorry” may usually refer to people obtaining goods for free or at a cut price, we have taken on claims for personal injury compensation where workers have been hit by stock cages or goods falling off by accident and injuring them.

So what happens if you are injured because someone fetching stock from a van or lorry fails to secure a load properly and it falls off and hits you? Or perhaps it isn’t secure in the first place?
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If your job demands that you have to work at low heights and kneel, or just kneel down in general, your employer is bound by law to provide you with personal protective equipment (often known as PPE) to protect your knees from being injured.

Sustaining a knee injury from kneeling can be easy to do – and unfortunately knee injuries can result in severe and long term disability. So it is important that employers abide by the law. Engineers, plumbers, electricians – anyone who may have to work in small spaces on their knees should be provided with things such as knee pads and soft matting to kneel on.
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The Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 state that an employer must provide, pay for, risk assess, and maintain protective equipment to employers where their health is at risk. Eye protections falls within the scope of Personal Protective Equipment, or PPE as it is known in short.

Common examples where eye protection could be necessary are:
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Pallets can be fairly large and difficult to manually handle. If they have goods on them, the weight will likely increase.

But in the workplace there are specific health and safety regulations that employers must abide by in order to keep their staff safe from injury. These are covered in The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.
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There are plenty of potential hazards in the modern workplace, and there are plenty of health and safety rules and regulations that are designed to protect people from being injured in the line of duty.

When it comes to working with potentially hazardous equipment or materials, all reasonable steps should be taken to ensure that you are not at risk of injuring yourself.
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Have you become a victim to an injury at work having not received any manual handling training from your employer? Perhaps you have received training but the training was not adequate or sufficient for the task in hand? Or maybe you have lifted a box which was too heavy and caused you to suffer from back pain? 

Manual handling injuries can come from simple everyday tasks such as lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling. When lifting a load it is important to follow manual handling procedures, which is generally to bend your knees, keeping them at shoulder distance apart, keeping you’re back straight and holding the load close to your chest and not at arm’s length apart.
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Manual handling is an everyday part of many working people’s lives. It’s important for employers to get it right when it comes to health and safety law for manual handling activities in the workplace. This is governed by The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992.

The gist of these regulations is that an employer has a very important duty to:
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There are loads of workplace health and safety regulations that employers must abide by to ensure that you as an employee do not end up injured in the line of duty. When it comes to conveyor belts, this falls within the realms of work equipment which is covered by specific regulations called The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.

When it comes to this particular blog, we are looking at two main areas: access to dangerous parts of machinery, and emergency stop controls. As it happens, the regulations are so thorough that there are specific sections dedicated to each of these scenarios:
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Have you been injured at work due to faulty or unsuitable equipment that was used within your workplace? If so, you may be entitled to make a work injury claim for compensation!

The Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, or often abbreviated to (PUWER), states that companies or people who own work equipment, or even operate or have control over this, have a duty to ensure that the equipment is suitable and safe for the intended use. As well as this, it is also a duty to make sure that the equipment is only used by people who have the adequate training and information to operate, and that whilst doing so, they must be accompanied by the required and suitable health and safety measures and in accordance with the specific requirements for that particular piece of equipment.
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