This information sheet outlines the risk of developing back pain from whole-body vibration (WBV) when using port machinery and explains what you can do to reduce exposure to it.
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- HSE Safety Alert – motor vehicle repair scissor lift failure
- The International Safety Awards
- Foundries Industry Advisory Committee – Agenda and Minutes
- Firm fined £80,000 over death of nine-year-old boy
- HSE Safety Notice – electrically powered gates
- Blackpool’s highest window cleaner backs national safety campaign
- HSE Newsletter for February/March
- Shropshire firm fined for near-miss hand injury
- Supervising for safety in woodworking
- Energy Institute event speech
- Societal Risk and the consideration of technical and policy issues
- Competent Authority for the Control of Major Accident Hazards – Purpose statement
- Knowledge on tinnitus in relation to noise exposure and hearing loss
- Suffolk company fined after worker fell through roof
- Hazards of liquid hydrogen: Position paper
- Hazards of liquid hydrogen: Position paper
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods – October 09 Prohibition Notices
- Science and Engineering at the Heart of Health and Safety
- Chemicals – REACH ebulletin
- Chemicals – REACH ebulletin
- Leicester man fined for unsafe work at height
- Withdrawal Notifications for 2009
- Warburtons staff use their loaf when it comes to workplace safety
- Warburtons staff use their loaf when it comes to workplace safety
- REACH – Minimisation of Animal Testing
- REACH – Minimisation of Animal Testing
- Strategy Pledge Forum – Be Part of the Solution
- Free seminar – Moving Goods Safely
- Molecular/Veterinary Microbiology Specialist Inspector
- North east forestry workers urged to sign up for safety event
- Bradford property developer fined for failings at hull site
- Nuclear LLC Qtr 4 reports for Chapelcross and Torness
- Guidance on radioactive waste management updated
- Waste and recycling – LA procurement and management of waste services
- HSE Safety Notice – Handling and storage of large sheet stone slabs
- HSL Training courses – book online
- Repeat prosecution for illegal gas fitter
- Mechanical Engineer vacancy details
- Penrith farm safety event follows deaths and injuries
- Salford construction students warned following deaths
- RR782 – Fire and explosion properties of nanopowders
- Construction open meeting 3 March – agenda
- Adventure Activities Licensing – new guidance notes
- Adventure Activities Licensing – new guidance notes
- WAIT toolkit – don’t let a fall shatter your life
- AIAC Livestock steering group meeting
- Farm worker fined for running over his employer
- Food giant prosecuted after employee’s hand is crushed
- Hazardous agents offshore: Human vulnerability in major accident – Updated
- Fear for Merseyside roofers after formal warnings double
- Warning to construction sites after high voltage incident
- Tackling stress – case studies
- RR772: Offshore working time in relation to performance, health and safety
- HSE Board meeting papers – February 24 2010
- INDG437: Notification of Conventional Tower Cranes Regulations
- COSHH regulations – Offshore aspects
- Summary of responses to HSE consultation paper CD225
- Business Open Awareness Days – new dates February/March
- Speech by HSE Chair – SE Region Stakeholder Forum
- Liverpool construction workers warned over killer dust
- Safety Bulletins – subscribe for future announcements
- “Be afraid…” – HSE Chair warns the energy industry
- Load Safety Initiative – how to secure loads on vehicles safely
- Company fined after worker’s four-foot fall
- HSE raise Regulatory Issue (RI) against Westinghouse’s AP1000 nuclear reactor design
- Transportable pressure equipment- updated
- AIAC Training and Education Group meeting
- HSE helps to prevent accidents on Western Isles fish farms
- Safety event for south east farmers to help reduce death and injury
- Two demolition companies fined after man killed by falling steel prop
- HSE Podcast February 2010 – Shattered Lives
- Low noise and vibration event 2 March now fully subscribed
- Small Business Trade Association Forum
- Quarterly Nuclear LLC/SSG reports
- Major company fined £185,000 after truck runs over worker
- Bin man’s death leads to £130,000 fine for company
- Finger amputation at work leads to £10,000 fine
- European Good Practice Awards 2010
- CONIAC Open meeting: Wednesday 3 March
- Agriculture Committee members interests updated
- Seveso II Directive – Implications of new EU legislation
- Workforce Involvement Events – information flyer
- Schools employing external instructors
- Ionising radiations regulations – Offshore aspects
- HSE guidance to baggage handling industry
- RR780 – Monitoring the slip resistance of emerging workplace footwear
- Revision of the Event Safety Guide
- Agriculture E-bulletin December 2009
- Beware of illegal gas fitters warns HSE
- Local exhaust ventilation – eBulletin
- RR778 – Feasibility of storybuilder software tool for major hazards intelligence
- Buckinghamshire company pleads guilty following death
- Chemicals – European database updated to incorporate new EC Regulation
- Fund raising events by voluntary associations or charities
- Pesticide approvals granted in January 2010
- Construction: tower cranes legislation – Guidance on complying with the Regulations
- Statistics – Latest eBulletin available
- Stockport company fined after worker’s legs set alight
- ‘Keeping Alive – Borders church minister backs safety message for Scotland’s farmers’
- RR777 – A review of workplace transport safety and HSE commissioned work on manual handling and delivery of goods
- Fourth quarter 2009 statement of nuclear incidents at nuclear installations
- Adventure activities licensing – additional guidance
- Fatal injuries in farming forestry and horticulture 2008/09
- Serious incidents involving agency workers
- HSE calls for careful driving in depots
- Prosecution follows worker’s life-changing injuries
- Crane manufacturer fined following near-miss in Sheffield
- Construction Infonet – January 2010
- Consultation on implementing European pesticides legislation
- Stress case studies
- Slips, trips & falls leaves 180 Oxfordshire workers with major injuries
- Administrator – vacancy
- Slips, trips & falls cause 251 major injuries to workers in Surrey
- Slips, trips & falls caused more than 350 major injuries to workers in Sussex
- Shattered Lives – Simple mistakes can shatter lives
- Safety bulletin – health and social care providers
- RR776 – Assessing the effectiveness of the Workplace Transport Route Map
- Promotion of Health and safety in motor vehicle repair
- Reducing the risks of hazardous accumulations of flammable/toxic gases in tanks on FPSO and FSU installations
- Slips, trips & falls caused over 180 major injuries to workers in Berkshire
- Slips, trips & falls caused over 175 major injuries to workers in Buckinghamshire
- Recording prosecutions on the Police National Computer
- RR773 – ‘Feasibility of using urinary biomarkers to identify occupational MSD of the lower limbs’
- Slips, trips & falls cost three North West workers their lives
- Protecting migrant workers
- Whole-body vibration in ports
- HSE welcomes IAEA report
- Outreach Worker, Polish or Russian speaker, Chelmsford, Luton or Norwich
- Updated guidance on managing asbestos risks
- Slips, trips & falls caused 457 major injuries to workers in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
- Slips, trips & falls cost two East of England workers their lives
- Slips, trips & falls caused 1,400 major injuries to workers in the West Midlands
- Joint marine industry inspections mark new partnership
- Southport farm safety event follows death and injuries
- Unregistered gas fitter fined after 700 lives put at risk
- Fourth GDA Quarterly Report for 2009 published
- Slips, trips & falls cause 453 major injuries to workers in Kent
- Slips, trips & falls cost three London workers their lives
- Mental health charity fined after death of support worker
- Preston farm safety event follows deaths and injuries
- Thermoplastic tank integrity management
- Load Safety – How to secure loads safely
- Slips, trips & falls cost two South West workers their lives
- Bottle company fined over worker plunge
- Construction firm fined after worker injures skull
- Slips, trips & falls caused 1,117 injuries to workers in the East Midlands
- Senior Management Team meeting agenda
- Didcot landlord fined for ignoring gas safety
- Firm fined £2400 after factory worker injured
- Nuclear – Materials Inspector post
- Consultation on revision of the Quarries Regulations 1999 Approved Code of Practice
- Consultation on the Legislative Reform Order to amend the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act
- Slips and trips website – rebranded
- Work at height, Access equipment Information Toolkit (WAIT)
- Shattered Lives Campaign – Phase 3 launched
- Myth of the month – February 2010
- Slips, trips & falls cost the UK around £800M per year
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