Consultation with safety reps

HSE guidance emphasises the importance of consultation with safety reps “because they know at first hand the risks in the workplace and can offer practical solutions to controlling them”. Safety reps will find the appendices in the guidance particularly useful. The risk assessment filter from earlier guidance has been expanded, and a manual handling assessment chart is included. There are also checklists on lifting and carrying, and pushing and pulling, with some examples indicating the degree of detail necessary for a proper assessment.