This guide will help any employee, supervisor, manager, director or business owner to honestly evaluate their manual handling practices, enabling improvement in themselves and others to move and handle in a better, safer way.

This book highlights the problems and hazards of manual materials handling and provides ergonomic and engineering solutions for alleviating them.

; This guide is intended to include all activities involved in MMH lifting, pushing, pulling, carrying and holding. Recommendations are provided in the form of design data that can be used to design different MMH work activities.

Commonly used throughout the world, manual lifting tasks—whether simple or complex—all involve variable loads, postures, and movements.

Each solution is illustrated with a photograph or diagram with a short explanatory paragraph. Content: Avoiding manual handling; Redesigning the load; Redesigning the task; Mechanical handling aids; Environmental effects; Automation.

This report presents the outcome of an exercise carried out to establish scientifically-based principles for manual handling training, both for conventional (two-handed, symmetrical) lifting and for non- standard lifting, where the ...

The Manual Handling Revolution offers simple yet powerful insights into how we think about manual handling, and guides you through a process for changing that thinking to achieve creative solutions for people with disabilities and their ...

The book will be essential reference for staff and managers in health and social care settings, students, legal professionals and all those working to ensure good practice and compliance with the law.

This text presents an accessible overview of manual handling law and the legal implications and practical issues involved. Topics covered include equipment provision and handling of children in schools and guidelines on health and safety.