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6 December 2004 - HSE MAC Tool Demonstrated
at Printing Health and Safety Seminar
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A free seminar in
the Southwest of England, by the HSC's Printing Industries Advisory
Committee (PIAC), comprising of representatives of the CBI, TUC, and HSE was
held last month, where approximately 80 delegates were given a demonstration
of the HSE's Manual Handling Assessment Chart (MAC) tool, by an ergonomics
professional from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
Injuries within the printing and publishing industry, are
34% of all reported manual handling injuries and this tool can provide
simple, easy to use instructions and advice for in-house manual handling
risk assessments.
An HSE official responsible specifically for printing
commented:
“Manual handling was chosen as the theme of the
seminar because of the increasing numbers of manual handling injuries in
printing. HSE also recognise that many printers need help to get started
on manual handling risk assessment. The MAC tool takes the mystique out of
the process and is also easy to use. It is free to download from HSE’s web
site and there are online video case studies to take people through the
process.
In the last year, HSE received reports of around 500
manual handling injuries from the printing and publishing sectors – 34% of
all reported injuries from those sectors. If we are to make inroads into
reducing ill-health in these industries, it makes sense to start here.”
The Manual Handling Assessment Chart tool can be accessed
by clicking the following: MAC
tool.
Article by Alexandra Johnston |
