Manual handling is a part of everyday work across industries, from stacking shelves to moving equipment. While many assume there is a strict weight limit for lifting, SafeWork Australia clarifies that no legal maximum exists. Instead, workplace safety relies on risk assessments and tailored controls to protect workers from injury
Workplace Manual Handling Limit – Given the high occurrence of manual tasks in the work environment, many workers may find themselves pushing their bodies to complete the task and hinder injuring themselves based off poor handling techniques.
There are often misconceptions surrounding what the legal lifting limit in the workplace are.
SafeWork Australia mentioned from a previous discussion that there is in fact, no legal limit and the “limit” is based off a risk assessment and on what is deemed safe specific to the individual’s physical capabilities.
Risk assessments should be done for hazardous manual tasks to identify risky postures, movements, and forces, understand their causes, and determine solutions
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Source: SafeWork
Title: Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks
Read Time: 30+ minutes
Source: SafeWork
Title: Identify, assess and control hazards.
Read Time: 10 Minutes