As we explored last month in our article on the subject of manual handling risk in the food and drink industry, there are a number of acute and chronic injuries associated with the various processes involved in this sector. Whilst employers place a great deal of focus...
Within the food and drink industry there is extensive manual handling in the shape of raw materials and equipment handling; food and drink production; container packing; stacking and moving, and delivery of goods to offsite locations. With such extensive need for...
A range of wearable devices designed to help reduce the risk of pain and injury to backs, joints and limbs, in other words, musculoskeletal disorders, has come onto the market recently. The devices electronically detect movement, angular rotation and free-fall and are...
In 2018, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) announced that off-the-shelf manual handling training should become ‘a thing of the past’. This was a topic we felt strongly about, because we could not agree more on the vital importance of tailoring manual...
In October 2018, the Health and Safety Executive published a report entitled, ‘Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders, a tri-sector exploration.’ With work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) being so widespread and having such a significant impact on...
As another New Year dawns, it is the perfect time to pause and think about anything that did not work as well as it could have done over the past 12 months. It is also a great time to refresh skills and inject new ideas and energy into processes that may have gone...
