Summary

1. Your workplace will have WHS policies and procedures that aim to prevent harm and injury to yourself and others while carrying out manual tasks.
2. Manual handling policies and procedures provide instructional information about common manual handling hazards in your workplace and how to reduce the risk associated with those hazards.
3. It is important that you follow the manual handling instructions in your workplace.
4. Workers have a legal obligation to identify and report known manual handling hazards.
5. Manual handling hazards can be identified by consulting workers, reviewing available information, looking for trends and observing manual tasks.
6. Hazardous manual tasks place workers at risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
7. Hazardous manual task risk should be controlled by implementing the highest possible level of the Hierarchy of Control.