Manual handling ergonomic risk assessments
Manual handling assessment
We carry out ergonomic manual handling assessments in a wide variety of environments: cold store warehouses, packing and distribution centres, offices, post rooms, film archives, film production units, and for a wide variety of workers - delivery drivers, engineers, nurses. forensic officers, MOD ...
The manual handling assessment will either be a single ergonomic assessment or an ergonomic audit of a department or process. The single assessment may be for a post or office worker, and an audit maybe for film archivists in a film archive or for pickers in a cold stores environment.
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| Manual handling crates in a loading bay |
Transporting crates on a dolly |
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Manual handling in a goods |
Manual handling in a post room |
| Reason |
Our ergonomic assessment is carried out in line with the Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations and the Manual Handling Operations Regulations, taking into consideration specific industry guidelines. The manual handling ergonomic assessment is undertaken to identify ergonomic hazards and to offer ergonomic solutions to resolve the risk of musculoskeletal injury or accidents in offices, retail and industrial environments |
| Duration | 30 mins + dependent on the Manual Handling task |
| Location | Clients workplace |
| Report |
Our report will evaluate the task and the ability of the worker, and determine where the shortfalls are. Where these are identified solutions will be offered. Our assessors use a number of quantitative risk assessment tools to demonstrate to the client the degree of risk associated with that manual handling task |
| Our credentials | We have carried out hundreds of specialist manual handling assessments and audits. |
In the first instance please call us on 01747 871868 or email info@enricosmog.com so that we discuss your requirements in more detail..
Articles written by ergonomist Duncan Abbott relating to manual handling published in Safety and Health Practitioner (IOSH official publication) include:
Our assessment services covers most areas and includes: Aberdeen, Bath, Birmingham, Bouremouth, Brighton, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Chester, Colchester, Edinburgh, Exeter, Gatwick, Glasgow, Guernsey, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Jersey, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Portsmouth, Reading, Salisbury,Sheffield, Southampton, Swindon, Winchester





