Employees
Your employer is required to protect you from manual handling injuries.
At the same time, you have a general duty to take reasonable care for your own health and safety, and that of others who may be affected by your work, and to cooperate with your employer’s efforts to make the workplace safe.
This may include:
- using manual handling equipment properly
- following workplace policies and procedures (e.g. using trolleys, team lifting)
- attending health and safety training; and
- not taking any shortcuts that could increase manual handling risks.
You can also help your employer make the workplace safer by notifying them of any hazardous manual handling tasks that you become aware of.
