The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended) set no specific requirements such as weight limits. The ergonomic approach shows clearly that such requirements are based on too simple a view of the problem and may lead to incorrect conclusions.
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- 18 workers in the South West lose their lives at work
- Seven workers in Wales lose their lives at work
- 23 Scottish workers lose their lives at work
- HSE Chair speech – IOSH SW Branch
- New issue of RP News released
- Fewer construction workers killed in past year
- 24 killed while working in manufacturing
- Fewer workers killed in services sector
- Worker deaths in Britain fall to record low
- Tragic rise in agriculture deaths
- Dispelling health and safety myths
- HSE Chair’s speech to Quarries Target Zero
- RR816: Director leadership behaviour research
- Gas eBulletin – free news and updates
- Environment Agency consultation on its Generic Design Assessment findings so far
- RR815 – Second evaluation of guidance for directors and board members
- HSE Chair’s introduction and speech at the launch of European Campaign for Safe Maintenance
- Revised Section 3 guidance: Enforcing against public bodies and regulators
- RR817: Circumstances under which government guidance impacts on the actions of directors of corporate bodies
- Business Awareness Open Days – new dates added
- New nuclear build stakeholder strategy
- HSE Scotland Business Plan 2010/11
- RR810 – Health surveillance – a time for change? Workshop proceedings 07/08 July 2009
- Reducing MSDs – HSE’s new ART tool – Workshops during 2010
- RR809 – Healthy workplaces Milton Keynes pilot: Evaluation findings
- HSE Podcast – Offshore safety
- Improving health and safety in Scottish construction
- Worker left with amputated finger and cut hand
- Oldham developer fined for putting lives at risk
- Farmers urged not to misuse telehandlers
- Gas advice for landlords’ – dealing with tenants
- Steering Group publishes leadership of health and safety report
- Offshore Industry Advisory Committee Minutes 23 March 2010
- Land use planning advice around large scale petrol storage sites
- Teashack News – June 2010
- Wolverhampton building firm puts workers and others at risk
- Verification that safety critical elements are “suitable” at the commencement of a verification scheme
- HSE Chair’s speech to North West Regional Association’s Health and Safety Conference
- Agriculture eBulletin – free news and updates
- Treework article – Rigging research
- Two thirds of Scottish farms fail on quad bike safety
- Guidance on the Management of GDA Outcomes
- Quarterly Report for GDA published Jan-Mar 2010
- Woodworking – working safely with machinery
- Cases where local Planning Authorities were minded to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice
- HSE Board meeting agenda and papers – 30 June 2010
- Dunmow event to help reduce death and injury in farming
- Company fined £280,000 after worker’s head crushed
- Operational Note: Workplace fatality statistics released
- Construction company sentenced after worker’s foot amputated
- Selby company fined after explosion injures worker
- East Ayrshire council fined £56,000 following death of worker
- East Ayrshire council fined £56,000 following death of worker
- Rebuilding Cockermouth safely – event aims to cut serious injuries
- Tameside firm in court after worker crushed
- Worker’s fingers severed at London food firm
- Fairground ride owner and inspector convicted after women are flung from ride
- Recycling firm in court after worker loses leg under truck
- £39,960 in fines following serious roof fall
- £39,960 in fines following serious roof fall
- 10 years of safer quarries celebrated at major industry event
- 10 years of safer quarries celebrated at major industry event
- HSE appoints new agriculture champion
- HSE appoints new agriculture champion
- European campaign launched – Focus on Safe Maintenance
- Joint statement from the Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency
- Dungeness B Project Assessment Report (PAR) Executive Summary
- Agriculture Industry Advisory Committee Agenda – 21/06/2010
- Project Assessment Report (PAR) for Hunterston A
- FAQs – How do I carry out a risk assessment?
- Scientific Advisory Committee on Genetic Modification (Contained Use)
- Assembly Lines – March 2010
- Illegal gas fitter fined after elderly couple poisoned by carbon monoxide
- AALA Inspector Guidance Note 6.13 – Emergency action plans
- Speak Up, Stay Safe – British Safety Council campaign
- HSE Publications translated – information and advice in world languages
- Standard Industrial Classification 2007 (SIC 2007)
- HSE responds to Daily Mail
- Health and safety ‘used as an excuse’, Hackitt warns
- Registration and Licensing by HSE under the Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 (MSER)
- Health and safety ‘used as an excuse’, Judith Hackitt warns
- HSE publications – Free to download or purchase online
- Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)
- The printer’s guide to health and safety
- Accident investigation – learning lessons from incidents workshops
- HSE Chair Speech – Speech to the Society of Occupational Medicine, Annual Scientific Meeting, Edinburgh
- Elderly resident lowered into scalding bath is left with first degree burns
- 53rd North West Safety Conference and Exhibition
- Diversity – National Men’s Health Week, 14 – 20 June
- Agricultural machinery – design, manufacture & supply
- Operation of auger feed devices
- Tywyn fitter is fined for illegal gas work
- Deaths prompt white van safety roadshow across London
- The generation gap: towards Generation Z
- Offshore Industry Advisory Committee Agenda 22 June 2010
- National Painting and Decorating Show 2010
- Bakery directors fined after staff exposed to risk of electrocution and irritant dust
- Dounreay Project Assessment Report (PAR) Executive Summary
- HSE Management Standards and stress-related work outcomes
- Warning to farmers using excavators with quick hitches for construction work
- Manager fined after 17-year-old trainee is injured
- Trust sentenced over bed rail death of disabled man
- FAQs – Do I need a licence to work with asbestos?
- Gas Safe Register – Better Gas Safe than sorry
- HELA minutes
- Roofers fined £200 each for working dangerously at height
- Bradford motor parts firm fined after worker injured
- Glasgow security firm fined following death of worker
- Offshore eBulletin – subscribe for free news and updates
- Safety Notice – Failures of manually operated side-door elevators
- Safety Alert – People in commercial waste containers
- People in commercial waste containers
- HSE Books catalogue 2010
- Construction leaflets in multiple languages
- Safety checks on quad bikes on Scottish farms
- Chief Executive’s Report to the Board – 26 May 2010
- HSE Chair Speech – Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath
- American Airlines fined after ground worker loses leg
- Boss fined £20,000 after worker loses foot in shavings machine
- Teesside firm fined for potential asbestos exposure
- 21-year-old employee killed after firm’s failings
- Out of control lift kills lift engineer
- High 5 for Boston builders
- Deaths prompt white van safety roadshow
- Food firm sentenced after worker’s finger severed
- Council and contractors fined for unsafe asbestos removal
- Woodworking – safe practice
- FAQs – Is there a maximum weight a person can lift during their work?
- Senior Management Team meeting agenda 5 May 2010
- Myth of the month – June 2010
- Nuclear 2009 LLC quarterly reports for Vulcan and BAE Barrow
- First aid at work newsletter – Issue 10
- SRO Newsletter – Spring Issue
- Sign workers injured after scaffold collapse
- Lack of traffic control leaves worker injured
- Company failed to check for dangerous asbestos fibres
- FAQs – What is the maximum/minimum temperature in the workplace?
- Minutes of the HSE Board open meeting held on 28 April 2010
- Premier league football club fined after worker’s three-metre fall
- High voltage shock lands stationery firm with fine
- Report encourages new ways of working to reduce injury in bed manufacturing
- Tackling stress – everyone has a role to play
- FAQs – How do I report accidents?
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