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Risk · UK duty guide
Manual handling
The load, the person, and the control.
On the file
The task, the load, the place, the person, and the control.
Duty
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Where it is used
On the job, for the lift that is about to happen.
What the duty covers
- The task, the load, the environment, and the person.
- The control: remove it, use kit, or change how it is done.
- Tied to the people who actually do the lift.
On the file
- The task
- The load
- The place it is moved through
- The person doing it
- The control: avoid it, use kit, or change how it is done
- The people on that lift
How this duty should sit
These notes describe how the duty can sit on a digital record. This page is a guide to a UK duty. It is not a screen in EHSync Safety.
- Done for this job and this load, not a generic sheet from the last site.
- The people on the task are the ones the assessment names.
The duty
The UK law we work to, by name.
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
Avoid the handling if you can. Assess it if you cannot. Reduce the risk.
Who uses it
The supervisor for that task. The people named are the ones who lift.
Sits with
With the people who are actually on the task.
What good looks like
Written for this load and these people. Not a sheet copied from the last site.
Also in Risk
All guides- Risk assessmentsThe hazard, the score, the control, and the date it has to be looked at again.
- Hazard registerEvery hazard on the job, and the control that sits against it.
- COSHHThe substance on the task, not a folder of data sheets in the cabin.
- Substance registerWhat is on site, and where it is stored.
- Working at heightThe task, the access, and the fall control.
- DSEThe workstation assessment, and the date it is due again.