A Useful Guide To Managing Manual Handling
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A Useful Guide To Managing Manual Handling

The BCF Group
Updated Oct 24, 2019

This Useful Guide has been written with the aim of promoting a new approach to managing manual handling.


Benefits of using this Useful Guide

In this Useful Guide we will explore the rates of accidents, injuries and musculoskeletal disorders, we then move on to consider what motivates people to behave as they do, and how we can apply this knowledge so that people are motivated to behave differently in the manual handling environment.


Manual Handling: What it is


The consequences of ineffective manual handling for employer; reduced efficiency, impaired performance and unnecessarily high levels of absence – all of which directly affect business performance and profitability.