1. Risk Assessment Training
A step by step
approach
Select Risk Management 2009

2. Reasons for today's training
 Moral reasons
 We want to give people the best chance to go
home at the end of the day alive and healthy.
 Legal reasons
 Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
 An employer must ensure, so far as is reasonably
practicable the Health, Safety and Welfare of all
employees and other people who may be affected
by the work we undertake

3. More reasons for today
 Training
 Training our staff is a requirement of the Health
and Safety at Work Act 1974.
 Regulation 3 of the management of Health and
Safety at Work Regulations 1999 states;
every employer shall make a suitable and
sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and
safety of his employees to which they are
exposed whilst they are at work.

4. Assessing the
risks at work
Risk Assessments

5. What do we mean by
Hazard and Risks?
 HAZARDS  RISKS
 Driving to clients premises  Vehicle accident, Broken
bones, Danger of death
 Lone Working  Stress, Increased risk of
accident or ill health.
 Working with Electrical
equipment.  Electrocution, Death
 Potential for conflict.  Increased risk of conflict
situations

6. Risk Assessments
What are the hazards?
•What are the risks arising from these
hazards?
•What is the likelihood of the risk
coming to fruition.
HAZARD X RISK X LIKELIHOOD =
RISK RATING HIGH
•Cylinders behind a building used to
undertake welding and burning
•How do we reduce the risk?
•Store empty cylinders in an external metal
cage open to the atmosphere.
RISK RATING LOW

7. What the law
says we must
do NOW!
Getting it RIGHT

8. Information and Training
Manual Handling
Use of display screen equipment
Noise, HAV, COSHH,
Stress, Conflict, Violence at work
Dynamic risk assessment !

9. What is Manual Handling?
Any transporting or supporting of a load by hand
or bodily force
 This includes:
 Lifting,
 putting down,
 pushing,
 pulling,
 carrying or moving

10. The law and Manual
Handling
The Manual Handling Operations Regulations
1992:
These regulations are based on an ergonomic
approach to preventing manual handling
injuries. This involves fitting the job to the
worker, taking into account anatomy,
physiology and psychology.

11. Avoid manual handling?
Eliminate:
By design- Reduce heavy structural
materials, layout of workplace to minimise
manual handling operations
Automation/mechanisation:- Cranes, hoists,
forklift trucks, sack trolleys etc
Management- Delivery of heavy articles to
point of use, storing heaviest materials at
waist level

12. WRULD work related upper
limb disorder
Affects shoulders, arms and wrists
Main Causes:
 Excessive force
 Excessive repetition
 Lack of recovery time or rest
 Poor static posture
 Stress
 Individual susceptibility

13. The spinal column

14. The spinal column composed
of 33 vertebrae
Each vertebrae is separated by a gel like substance, the
disc. These discs bend and stretch as we move, each
moves 1.25 cm and you are 20mm shorter at the end of
the day than you were at the start!

15. The nerves

16. Slipped disc
It is a bulge in the wall of one of the
discs between the vertebrae pressing
onto the nerve

17. Manual Handling
TILE
TASK
INDIVIDUAL
LOAD
ENVIRONMENT

18. Practical demonstrations

19. Think before you lift

20. Forces on the back
1kg Weight close to the body exerts 10kg force onto
muscles of the back (1:10)
1kg Weight held at arms length exerts 100kg force
onto the muscles of the back (1:100)

21. Manual Handling Principles
 Stay balanced
 Keeping your centre of gravity close to the
load’s centre of gravity
 Bending from the knees
 Keeping the back straight, and head up
 Staying compact when pushing
 Moving the feet to turn, not the body
 Moving smoothly, particularly when setting loads
down

22. IMPORTANT
• Knowledge and training alone will not
guarantee safe handling
• A risk assessment needs to be
undertaken
• Avoid if possible
• Know your own limits
• Put training into action at work as well as home

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