Manual Handling
Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended) (MHOR) The Regulations define manual handling as: "...any transporting or supporting of a load (including the lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving thereof) by hand or bodily force". The load can be an object, person or animal.12 Dec 2012
Working days lost:
None-Fatal workplace injuries 5.5 million
Work-related ill health 27.7 million
Stress, depression or anxiety and musculoskeletal disorders accounted for the majority of days lost due to work-related ill health, 12.5 million and 8.9 million respectively.
On average, each person suffering took around 17 days off work. This varies as follows:
- 9.1 days for injuries
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19.8 days for ill health cases
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23.8 days for stress, depression or anxiety
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17.6 days for musculoskeletal disorders
