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When it comes to manual handling at work, there are specific regulations that your employer needs to abide by. These are the covered by The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992<\/b>. Under 4.\u2014(1) of the regulations, each employer shall:<\/p>\n
(i)\u00a0make a suitable and sufficient assessment of all such manual handling operations to be undertaken by them<\/em> So, any manual handling activities you undertake should be risk assessed by your employer to determine how to best manoeuvre the load(s) and what prerequisites need to be taken in to account. As the title of this article suggests, we will look at your eligibility to make a claim in the event no equipment was provided to you<\/strong> for a manual handling activity. First and foremost, the opportunity for your employer to identify the need for any equipment is in the risk assessment. So if they have never done a risk assessment and equipment could have been supplied, they may be in breach of the regulations straight away in failing to do a risk assessment. Proving a breach of the regulations has caused you an injury is the recipe you need for making a claim.<\/p>\n If a risk assessment was done and the need for equipment wasn\u2019t raised, and you are injured because you believe equipment should have been supplied, we need to look at the reasonableness and eligibility of providing equipment. If you have been injured because you have been asked to carry large stacks of files from one place to another on a constant basis, could a trolley have been provided to make the job much more risk free? If so, this is one argument we could use.<\/p>\n
\n(ii)\u00a0take appropriate steps to reduce the risk of injury to those employees arising out of their undertaking any such manual handling operations<\/em><\/p>\n
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