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Rules and regulations that employers have to abide by when it comes to manual handling activities in the course of your employment are strict and numerous. There’s a very good and rather obvious reasons for this; manual handling injuries tend to affect the back. Your back is of course one of the most important parts of the body, so injuring it can be considerably debilitating.

Whilst manual handling comes in to almost everybody’s role in some way, it applies to others far more in certain occupations. It applies minimally for me as I’m an office worker, lifting only boxes of paper or files on the odd occasion.

But a plumber, or a mechanic, or anyone on a constructions site or in a warehouse, are going to be doing a lot of lifting as part of their role. As such, proper manual handling training and risk assessments should be done by your employer to comply with the law!
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Ice-Skating is a traditional winter sport which is fun for all the family, but it doesn’t come without its accidents, which I’m sure you know; there’s always the amusement of watching Dad act like ‘a pro’, until he actually reaches the ice, that is. Mix slippery ice and novice skaters and it’s inevitable that trips, bumps and tumbles are going to happen. Unfortunately, sometimes more severe injuries can be sustained, such as broken limbs, dislocated shoulders and neck and back injuries.
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