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Manual Handling and Lifting Explained

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August 2014

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Comply at Work UPCOMING COURSES Our popular ‘Pick

n Mix’ training session runs

Friday afternoon on 12th September.

1:00pm Manual Handling followed by 2:45pm Asbestos Awareness.

Both courses include Certificates of Awareness. Discounts are available for more than one person booking on both courses.

Please contact us to discuss your requirements.

Our next One day

Emergency First Aid Course runs on Tuesday 16th September places are already going quickly so let us know as soon as you are able if you would like to make bookings.

CIEH Level 2 Award in Health & Safety in the Workplace Tuesday 30th September 9.00am – 5 .00pm.

Discounted rates for our retained Clients.

Quality Buffet lunch included please enquire for course outlines and costs.

All training courses will be held at our new training facility in Horwich, Bolton. Places are limited and go quickly so please register your interest as soon as possible.

If you would like a FREE First Aid policy template document, with no obligation, please get in touch with your request and we will e-mail it on!

Call us for further information and costings.

Discounts are available for some of our courses.

Don’t delay as places are taken quickly! e-mail info@complyatwork.co.uk www.complyatwork.co.uk

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Sn Saf ip ety pe ts Six Quick Top Tips for Knocking MSD on the Head 1. Choose lighter materials where possible. Avoid the heavy stuff if you can. This goes for bags of things too, like cement and sand.

2. Use mechanical aids wherever possible, and encourage their use and careful maintenance. Use lifting equipment for any lifting.

3. Plan the site layout in advance to avoid the need for too much lifting and carrying. For example, have loads placed near to machinery instead of across the site.

4. Think about which workers are best suited to which jobs, considering size, strength and training.

5. Avoid all repetitive lifting where possible. Such as moving heavy blocks or lintels.

6. Train your workers really well, in all of this and how to use the right mechanical or machine aids.

There you have it. If you apply these with care, you’ll do a great deal of good.

And your workers’ backs will thank you for it too!

Key Takeaways Muscoskeletal Disorder is very common in all sectors, particularly construction. The main cause is manual handling. Especially manual handling done badly.

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Watch out for repetitive movements, and movement that requires great bodily force.

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Choose lighter materials, prepare in advance so lifting will be avoided, use mechanical aids.

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Train your workers well!

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Manual Handling and Lifting explained It’s not always the big dramatic injury risks, like plummeting through a roof, that need to be watched out for – though they get the most attention.

More everyday pain, discomfort, and inability to work is caused by simply doing things wrong too often such as a bit of lifting & too much twisting.

Have You Experienced Musculoskeletal Disorder?

Not surprisingly, the construction industry has the highest rates of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) in all the UK. MSD is basically injury to muscles, joints, tendons or the spine, leading to all sorts of aches and pains. And sometimes permanent disability.

The biggest culprit? Manual handling.

This basically means lifting, pushing and pulling, lowering ad carrying. And the workers most at risk are scaffolders, bricklayers, ground workers, electricians, demolition workers and general labourers. So pretty much everyone in the industry.

“I’m in Construction – how the heck do I avoid lifting things!?”

Fair question.

First, like all health & safety, be aware. Just knowing which activities should be done with some care – and more importantly, your workers knowing – will reduce the chances of injury!

Risky Jobs & Working Conditions •

Injuries come from three things in combination;

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Your physical ability

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The weight or force needed for the job

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The environment, including the weather

The 9 big MSD culprits Watch out for these, and start thinking along the same lines – you’ll notice plenty of risks on your work site!

1. Bending and twisting, common in plastering 2. Lifting, carrying, lowering heavy materials, like roof tiles 3. Pushing and pulling heavy things, like barrows 4. Smaller but very repetitive tasks, like brick, block, kerb or slab-laying, pipe work, etc.

5. Working in awkward positions, like crouching or bending 6. Working in restricted places, like tucked up in a roof void 7. Time pressure on jobs, leading workers to take risks and try to use brute force 8. Lack of mechanical assistance 9. Working too long without breaks You can see these conditions are quite easy to watch out for once you start taking them seriously. And when you educate your workers to a degree where they start taking it seriously too, then you’ll suddenly see cases of MSD dropping quickly.

As always the HSE has a very detailed five-step procedure to mitigating and limiting manual handling risks as much as possible. You can go through it here: MSD and Manual Handling (http://www.hse.gov.uk/ construction/healthtopics/msd.htm?ebul=gd-cons/ jul14&cr=6)

Our next Annual Handling Awareness training session is on Friday 12 September at 1 pm in Horwich, Bolton.

Source: David Cant e-mail info@complyatwork.co.uk www.complyatwork.co.uk

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First aid at work policy Unless your first aid arrangements are very simple, e.g. one first aider and a first aid kit, it’s beneficial to have a formal policy to detail how you approach and manage first aid. This will help to show everyone in the business what has been decided. You may already have a Policy embedded within your general Health and Safety Policy, or you may wish to develop a standalone Policy for your First aid provision. Please find below what may need to be included:

General statement

Visitors

This section introduces the policy. The general statement doesn’t need to be complicated so our example just undertakes to provide sufficiently trained staff and adequate first aid equipment for the needs of your own organisation.

Section five covers your position on visitor first aid.

Although there’s no legal requirement to do so, most employers decide to provide assistance if necessary.

Legal position

Section six covers training arrangements, including numbers to be trained, level required, special content, refresher training and who is responsible for organising it. The final section covers the way in which information on first aid will be disseminated to staff including induction training and signage.

The second section outlines the legislation that deals with first aid at work and what it requires. Luckily, the Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 aren’t onerous in that their main requirement is for you to carry out a risk assessment to determine your own particular needs. With this in mind, we’ve simply bullet-pointed the main factors to consider.

Responsibilities Our third section clarifies the responsibilities of first aiders; this includes full first aiders who have attended the First Aid at Work course and also those who have attended the Emergency First Aid at Work course (introduced in October 2009).

Procedures The fourth section introduces procedures for how first aid help is requested. For example, how to contact a first aider, or who to inform if staff notice that the contents of a first aid kit are depleted.

Training and information

If you would like a copy of our FREE First aid Policy template, with no obligation please contact us by e-mail: info@complyatwork.co.uk

You may also like to know that our next Emergency First aid course takes place in our new training centre in Horwich on Tuesday 16 September cost £85 + VAT including a quality buffet lunch. Places are very limited on this popular course so please let us know as soon as possible if you would like to book on.

Source: Indicator

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Fly your KITE! Do you see your important contacts often enough?

Or are there some you haven’t called for far too long?

If this sounds familiar, there are a few problems with this, of course. One being that, when we don’t talk to people enough, they don’t know us enough. And, when this happens, it’s much harder to influence them.

In fact, it is always easiest to influence people who KNOW you and OWE you. In other words, they need to speak with you often enough for their liking. And, when they do, it has to bring them value.

So, how to achieve both?

1. Knowing you A simple way to ensure you speak to your important contacts more: KITE them. Where KITE stands for Keep In Touch Every. There’ll be some you should Keep In Touch with every week; others, every month; and so on.

Once you know who the ‘weeklies’ are, group all their names in a recurring weekly diary entry, reminding you to call them. Put your monthlies in recurring monthly entries; and so on.

And, as for what to say when you contact them…

2. Owing you People like to reciprocate (you know this to be true – ever received a Christmas Card and not felt a strangely obsessive compulsion to send one back immediately? Thought not).

So, when you give to people first, there’s a good chance they’ll want to give back – great for both of you.

This means, when you’re KITE-ing your contacts, always bring unexpected value to them. For example: • Introduce them to someone useful • Invite them to an event that will help them • Teach them something they didn’t know they didn’t know, which will make a big difference to them • Offer to help them • Suggest you come out to see them • Remember what they talked about with you last time you spoke, and ask how things are going for them with it • And so on It all sounds so obvious, doesn’t it? All I’m saying is to (1) speak to people more, and (2) help them when you do.

But, with our increasingly-busy lives, it’s easy to get out of the routine of doing this. Recurring KITE diary entries help ensure you fit things round them, not the other way round.

Action point Review your main contacts, and identify how often you should be speaking to each of them. Group all the weeklies in recurring weekly diary entries, monthlies in monthly diary and so on. And then make sure they get something out of every interaction with you.

Source: Andy Bounds

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G Williams Joinery Ltd, based in Bolton has achieved CHAS accreditation for the first time and passed at the first attempt. The company already had robust systems for Health and Safety in place and with our guidance and expertise put forward a comprehensive and high quality application.

K Darlington & Son Ltd, Tarmacadam Contractors, based in Adlington has again achieved Safe Contractor Accreditation and looks forward to further CHAS accreditation soon.

We held another fire safety awareness and fire marshall course last month and all delegates gave excellent feedback reporting their knowledge on fire safety in general had been significantly increased.

Another group on our Emergency First Aid course held on 7 August has passed 100%. Our next course is on Tues 16 September.

We have carried out Manual Handling training in a large office and on the shop floor for one of our engineering/ manufacturing clients in Rochdale. This has significantly assisted our clients in looking at new techniques specific to their tasks and raising awareness of mechanical aids.

Our next open manual handling session takes place on Friday 12 September at 1 pm.

We have delivered the CIEH Level 2 Award in Health and Safety and a risk assessment course to 11 delegates at VITA Student. Feedback has been excellent – some comments of our evaluation forms were: ‘Very thorough and informative, to the point and useful…’

‘Good amount of open conversation to get us interacting and staying engaged…’ ...’The presentation, trainer and content were brilliant and really helpful’ ‘Most useful and interactive risk assessment course attended’ …’Perfectly pitched.’

We are delivering a range of Health and Safety Awareness topics for Cahill Dental Care Centre in Bolton over the coming months, including COSHH, Fire Safety, Basic Life Support and Legionella Awareness.

We have been providing training accommodation for Bolton NDT to deliver several of the Responsible Welding Co-ordinator courses. Our training room and other facilities are available to hire to local businesses at competitive rates. Let us know how we can help your company.

We are looking to resume our FREE Health and Safety Seminars following the summer break. Keep an eye on this Newsletter for dates in the autumn.

Finally, we are very proud to announce that we have been shortlisted of the Bolton and Bury Business Awards 2014 and will be attending the glittering ceremony at the Macron Stadium in September, so watch this space – excuse for a new frock anyway!

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