Employees in the health and social care sectors may be involved in moving and handling activities such as moving equipment, laundry, catering, distributing supplies or assisting patients/residents in moving. The moving and handling of people is a regular task in health and social care, which if not done safely, can cause serious injury to service […]
Dynamic Risk Assessment – the Onion Model
‘The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice……’ R.D. Laing How many of us, when undertaking risk assessment, sometimes fail to see ‘the wood for the trees’? With any job, becoming entangled in wider workplace issues may end up blurring our focus on the tasks at hand. An adequate […]
Cutting-Edge DSE Risk Assessment tool from Osteopaths for Industry
Are you responsible for the health and safety of your colleagues? Do they use computers at their desks? The latest report from the Office of National Statistics states that the most common reason for absence from work is due to back, neck and muscle pain. So with millions of us spending all day glued to […]