Identify all lifting and handling activities which take place within their area of responsibility.
Identify all persons likely to be involved in lifting and handling operations.
Ensure that all manual handling operations that could result in injury are assessed and the risks adequately controlled.
Ensure all staff who undertake manual handling operations are provided with appropriate supervision, instruction, training and information, necessary to allow them to carry out the manual handling task assigned to them.
Ensure that manual handling risk assessments are undertaken and included or referred to in job-based risk assessments.
Ensure all manual handling operations that are considered high risk are individually risk assessed using the Task, Individual, Load, Environment (T.I.L.E.) method with control measures referred to or included in job-based risk assessments (refer to appendices below).
Ensure an individual risk assessment is carried out where an employee is a young person, a new or expectant mother or has an injury or medical condition which may make them more susceptible to a manual handling injury.
Ensure risk assessments are reviewed annually or, when the work changes significantly, or following an accident, incident or near miss, or when the validity of the assessment is suspected, or when legislation changes.
Ensure all manual handling accidents, incidents and near misses are reported to the appropriate line manager for recording on the incident reporting system, Assessnet (see Accident/Incident Reporting Policy health-and-safety-incident-reporting-policy).
Ensure that appropriate lifting and handling equipment is available, properly stored, correctly used and inspected with records retained.
Ensure staff are made aware of this policy and associated guidance and understand it, and comply with it.
Monitor lifting and handling tasks to ensure safe manual handling practices are being carried out in the correct manner.
Make sure the risks of manual handling whilst lone working, which may include working from home, are assessed.
