Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
Research has found general training in lifting techniques to be an ineffective way of controlling the risks of manual handling in businesses and the HSE has said that “off-the-shelf” manual handling training should become a thing of the past. Instead, employers should get help to change the way they work and reduce manual handling risks.
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