Managing The Manual Handling Risk
Managing The Manual Handling Risk
Managing The Manual Handling Risk
Risk
Ruth Robotham MSc, CMIOSH, RN, RNT
Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner
& Back Care Advisor
Sussex Safety Ltd
Objectives
12 hour shifts
Consolidate legislation
ACoP simplify & review (53) eg LOLER
Review absolute liability / SFAIRP
Redirect enforcement to high risk
businesses
Criminal Prosecution
If the Organisation has breached health and
safety law
Enforcing Agency needs to Prove
A statutory duty was owed and the law was
broken
Organisation Needs to Prove
(Guilty until proved innocent)
Everything had been done to
reduce significant foreseeable risks
Setting Policies
Measuring Performance
Pro-Active Monitoring
To check if the Manual handling policy is being
followed
Are the risks controlled by the measures in place
Is the standard of patient handling good
Is patient independence being promoted and
goals
being achieved
ie spot observations; or working with staff;
checking risk assessments; key performance
indicators; is equipment available; evaluate the
impact of introducing new equipment, etc
Name
Reflective
Role
Health Diary
Identify the tasks you carry out each day, eg carry out
a leg ulcer dressing;
input data on the computer; catheterisation; carry out
venipuncture; driving the car, carrying equipment.
Things you do outside of work can also be included.
Discuss work issues with your manager, or get advice
from the manual handling advisor or Occupational
Health, to work out what you can do to reduce your
Date
Task
Health effects Possible solution
symptoms.
carried
out
4/4/0 eg Using
6
my
computer
/ Symptoms
and effect
I get a pain in
the right side of
my neck after 15
minutes.
Your signature
. Date
Line managers
signature . Date.
Measuring Performance
Reactive monitoring system
Manual handling accidents and incidents
Sickness absence -musculo-skeletal disorders
Patient injuries due to handling
Nationally 2011/12
17% fall in reported MSD caused or made
worse by work
HOP6
Review Performance
Learn from experience, improve performance,
respond to change, share best practice.
Update your policy, if necessary
Conclusion
1.