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5 Top Tips for Safe Manual Handling
Keeping Contractors Safe & Healthy: Tips for Safe Manual Handling
Did you know that sprains, strains, muscle injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders account for a whopping 43% of serious workplace injury claims?
The majority of these serious claims are due to manual handling while lifting or carrying objects. Over one third of the total number of cases for work-related injuries and illness were associated with body stressing or manual handling cases.
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Five hot tips for safer manual handling
Lift it, shift it and handle it safely!
Manual handling tasks are common across construction sites. Lifting heavy equipment, unloading supplies like bags of concrete and using heavy or vibrating tools that take a toll on your body are often just part of the job. However, manual handling injuries also account for the majority of workplace incidents.
Musculoskeletal disorders, or sprains and strains from pulling, pushing, moving and repetitive movements, are a massive issue despite the g
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