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Health and Safety Health and Safety Executive Executive Managing manual handling risks in construction work Jane Beckmann Health Risk Management Unit Construction Sector What I Will Cover Why manual handling is an HSE priority What

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Health and Safety Executive Health and Safety Executive

Managing manual handling risks in construction work

Jane Beckmann Health Risk Management Unit Construction Sector

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What I Will Cover

  • Why manual handling is an HSE priority
  • What are Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
  • How to control the risk

– Identifying high risk tasks – Control strategies

  • Going forward
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Why a priority?

  • Lifting and Carrying

– Handling is most common over 7- day injury in the industry – Skilled construction and building trades have one the highest estimated rates of back and upper limb disorders

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Why a priority?

Ill-health statistics – construction

  • 1.2m working days lost
  • Over 60% due to MSDs
  • Over 3/4m days to MSDs
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What are MSDs

  • Upper Limb

Disorders

  • Lower Limb

Disorders

  • Back pain
  • Aches & pain
  • Stiffness
  • Weakness
  • Tingling
  • Numbness
  • Cramp
  • swelling
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Upper limb disorders

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Tennis elbow
  • Carpel tunnel syndrome
  • Repetitive strain injury
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Lower limb disorders

  • Osteoarthritis
  • Knee bursitis including beat knee
  • Meniscal lesions & tear damage
  • Stress fracture & reaction injuries
  • Varicose veins
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Back pain

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Manual handling operation

Involves a load being

  • Lifted
  • Lowered
  • Carried
  • Pushed
  • pulled
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How to avoid manual handling risk (and other health risks)

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Common Principles

  • Assess
  • Control
  • Review
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Assess

Identify your high risk tasks: Think about the:

  • Load
  • Task
  • Frequency
  • Working area
  • Individual
  • Other factors
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Assess: MSD toolkits

RAPP tool

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Assess: Case Study

  • This is a grade II list

building which has been gutted and now

  • n fit out stage.
  • House has 3 floors

plus attic

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Assess

New sash windows are to be fitted. Most are already in house but still need to be installed.

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Assess

What do you need to know?

  • Load weight
  • Task
  • frequency
  • Work area
  • Individual
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Assess

  • Load weight

– 90-120 kg each

  • Task

– 2 men carried windows up stairs

  • Frequency

– Over 50 windows

  • Work area

– Narrow stairs & through doors

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Assess

MAC

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Assess

MAC

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Assess: What happened!

  • PN served on site
  • Follow up visit to PC
  • Track back visit to designer
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Assess

  • Involve workers
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Control Law requires:

  • Avoid manual handling operations which

involve a risk of injury so far as reasonably practicable

  • Take appropriate steps to reduce risk of injury

to lowest level reasonably practicable

  • Take appropriate steps to provide weight of load
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Control: Elimination

  • Design Out
  • Work processes
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Eliminate

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Lightweight kerbs

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Control: Mechanical handling

Photo courtesy of Loughborough University

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Control: Mechanical handling

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  • Specify blocks less than 20kg
  • Deliver close to the point of

use and keep dry

  • Prevent work above shoulder

height

  • Reduce lay rate for feet level
  • Adjust scaffold height and use

spot boards

Control: blocks

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Control: plasterboard

Weight of 1200 x 2400 x 12.5 mm?

  • Standard
  • Fire board
  • Soundbloc
  • Lifeboard
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Control: plasterboard

Weight of 1200x2400x12.5mm?

  • Standard

23kg

  • Fire board

28kg

  • Soundbloc

30kg

  • Lifeboard

34kg

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Reduce – manual handling

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Control: Loading out

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Control: handling solutions

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Control: Installing

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Review:

  • Have work procedures
  • Check controls working
  • Maintenance
  • Supervision
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Operational Guidance

  • Transparent decision making
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Operational Guidance

  • Transparent and proportionate
  • http://www.hse.gov.uk/foi/internalops/og/og-00049.htm
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Risk Gap

  • Difference between:

– Expected standards – On-site conditions

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Guidance

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Guidance

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Guidance

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Guidance

  • Being revised
  • Published 2016
  • Will include:

– MAC – ART – RAPP

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Health Remains a Priority

“Tackling ill health” is a strategic theme in the new strategy

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Wider Developments

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Be Inspired!

https://player.vimeo.com/video/151709341

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Any questions?

Jane Beckmann Health risk management unit jane.beckmann@hse.gsi.gov.uk