A manual handling policy template that starts with avoiding hazardous handling, then covers the factors to assess, safe systems of work, training and risk assessment.
This policy template is supplied in fully editable MS Word format and can be easily customised and edited. The document uses pre-defined style formatting throughout, with all text in Calibri font for improved readability.
The following document labelling is included in the footer:
- Policy number and title
- Information-classification
- Version
- Page number / total pages
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Manual Handling Policy Template
A manual handling policy template applying to all manual handling activities, committing to avoid hazardous manual handling so far as is reasonably practicable and to consider mechanical handling aids to reduce the need for it.
The policy has Approved By and Date Approved fields and carries a Public information classification, so it can be shared with workers, clients and other interested parties.
What the Manual Handling Policy Covers
- Manual handling injuries - musculoskeletal disorders and repetitive strain injuries, and the activities covered, including lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling and carrying
- Avoidance - avoiding hazardous manual handling and using mechanical handling aids where reasonably practicable
- Factors assessed - the task, individual capability, the nature of the load, environmental conditions, training and work organisation
- Safe systems of work - less twisting, stooping and reaching, no lifting from floor level or above shoulder height where avoidable, and adjusted storage
- Carrying - minimising carrying distances and assessing whether a worker can move the load safely or needs help
- Training - suited to the tasks each worker does, and no task that needs training until it has been received
- Risk assessment - for any manual handling task that presents a risk of injury
Written to Be Shared
Like every alphaZ policy, this is written as a public policy statement that can be shared openly with workers, customers, suppliers and assessors. The internal detail of how it is carried out belongs in your procedures.
Using the Policy
Add your company name and logo, check each commitment matches what your organisation does and edit any that do not, then approve and date the policy and share it with workers and anyone else who needs to see it.
Who Needs a Manual Handling Policy?
Any organisation whose workers lift, carry, push or pull loads as part of their work.
Works with the Manual Handling Procedure
The PP-7-05 Manual Handling Policy Procedure sets out the procedure, the F-HS31 Manual Handling Assessment and RA-HS19 Manual Handling risk assessment support the assessments the policy asks for, and the TT-7-05 Manual Handling toolbox talk briefs workers.
Document Control
The footer carries the policy number and title, information classification, version and page numbers, and the approval fields record who approved the policy and when, so it can be controlled with the rest of your management system documents and listed on a document register such as the F-IMS20 Document Register.
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