Risk assessment and using historical data – is the risk actually low, or has the gambler had good luck!?

How much can or should we rely on accident or injury history when putting together risk assessments? This question is a natural one and it is frequently asked, but there is surprisingly little guidance on it. It initially seems intuitive to say – “we’ve done it this way for years, never had an accident [...]

By |2018-11-22T11:29:18+00:00September 23rd, 2016|foreseeability, Health & Safety, Human Error, Human Factors, Human Reliability, Risk assessment, Safe working procedures|Comments Off on Risk assessment and using historical data – is the risk actually low, or has the gambler had good luck!?

Taking that ART and MAC tools further – Task rotation and variable weight handling

The MAC and ART tools are great tools for initial identification of musculoskeletal risk factors. This post tells you how to get even more out of them. HSE will soon be publishing a new tool – similar to the MAC – for push-pull tasks which is much anticipated! But before that happens, in this [...]

By |2018-11-22T11:31:00+00:00June 25th, 2016|ART, Back pain, Health & Safety, MAC, Manual Handling, Musculoskeletal risk assessment, Occupational Health|Comments Off on Taking that ART and MAC tools further – Task rotation and variable weight handling

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