Managing manual handling risks in construction work - IOSH€¦ · Avoid manual handling operations...
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Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive
Managing manual handling
risks in construction work
Jane BeckmannHealth Risk Management UnitConstruction 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
on 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!
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