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niversity of Paisley.
This policy document intended to assist Local Health and Safety
Managers in:
complying with the Manual Handling Operations Regulations
1992
carrying out suitable and sufficient risk assessment of manual
handling operations and
controlling the risks arising out of such operations.
This policy applies to all departments and units of the University of
Paisley including academic, service and self-financing units (units
staffed by University employees that provide a commercial
service). The requirement to carry out risk assessment of manual
handling operations applies to all work within or under the control
of the University including research work, undergraduate
experiments and both undergraduate and postgraduate project
work (including fieldwork) as well as work carried out in service
and administrative areas.
This policy is not intended to take the place of the Manual
Handling Operations Regulations 1992 and the Guidance
associated with those Regulations. Local Health and Safety
Managers and Manual Handlind Operations Assessors should
refer to the above documents as well as this FOR CARRYING OUT RISK ASSESSMENTS
ON MANUAL HANDLING OPERATIONS
1. General
At Unit level the responsibility to ensure that risk
assessments are carried out rests with the Local Health and
Safety Manager. The process of assessment of manual handling
risk requires some knowledge of ergonomics, therefore such
assessments must be carried out by staff who have had suitable
training in risk assessment of manual handling operations.
However the initial decision as to whether an operation falls within
the scope of the generic risk assessment (detailed assessment
guidelines filter) contained within Appendix 1 of this policy may be
made by staff