Manual Handling Push & Pull Tool Developed By The HSE
Published 06 Dec 2022
Safety Tools | Prevent Hand Injury Using Pushing & Pull Tools
By
Gwyn Evans BA (Hons)
The HSE has developed a new tool to assist organisations in reducing risks from manual handling pushing and pulling activities.
The guidance, entitled ‘Risk assessment of pushing and pulling’ (RAPP) provides a simple method for evaluating the levels of risk associated to your activities. By following the guidance, you will be able to identify your high-risk activities and check the effectiveness of your control measures.
The tool covers two distinct types of operation:
- Moving a load which is mounted on wheels
- Moving loads without wheels which involves dragging/sliding, rolling, or churning (for example, manoeuvring a tilted barrel)
Each type of operation is then broken down further by the typical equipment which may be used, or the manual handling method applied for movement.
There are flow charts to follow for both types of operation; leading you through a number of factors which affect the risk of injury. These include:
- Weight
- Posture
- Grip
- Work pattern
- Travel distance
- Floor surface
- Obstacles
Each factor receives a score based the level of risk, highlighting which create the greatest risk e.g. certain tasks may require poor posture, or require a number of obstacles to be negotiated whilst moving from A to B.
You’ll also now have a cumulative risk score for the overall task.
When assessing a number of different push/pull activities within your organisation, the cumulative scores can be used to compare tasks against each other. This enables you to prioritise your focus on those which carry the highest risk scores.
The results should mean that you can evaluate the effectiveness of your control measures quantitatively, thus giving you a firm grounding on which to base your risk assessments and safe working practices.
Manual Handling Push & Pull Tool Developed By The HSE
Push Pull Tools
The range of Push Pull Tools manufactured by the Hand Safety Tool Company and distributed by Thorne & Derrick provide significant Health & Safety Improvements around site where “pushing and pulling” operations such as handling deliveries or loading/unloading in yards is commonplace. This download produced by the UK HSE enables the Risk Assessment according to Load Weight, Operation Frequency, Push/Pull Distances and other impacting factors – the range of tools to keep hands off loads, enable “hands-free” lifting, mitigate risk of load handing and prevent hand or finger injury are available in the UK from Thorne & Derrick.
ShoveIt Hand Safety Tool | Prevention of Hand & Finger Injury
The ShoveIt Hand Safety Tool is manufactured by Hand Safety Tools and stocked and distributed by Thorne & Derrick.
ShoveIt tools are designed to help users avoid hand injuries while working with suspended loads or manoeuvring objects. The tool ensures correct ergonomic body positioning for safe handling out of the line of fire, while enabling users to guide loads, move and position objects, as well as grab slings and taglines without physically placing hands on the item.
Thorne & Derrick distribute a range of Safety Tools from Hand Safety Tool Company designed to minimise hand injuries by keeping hands out of the line of fire.
Over a quarter of a million people suffer serious hand injuries each year. The Hand Safety Tool Company works hard to help to reverse that trend by creating No Touch Hand Safety Tools that keep hands off and away from potential injury areas. The range of Safety Products are the result of numerous conversations and in-field encounters over the last decade with key Health & Safety Officers and “boots-on-the-ground personnel” to ensure each tool produced does the most important job of all – helps every user to keep their hands.
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Manual Handling Push & Pull Tool Developed By The HSE
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