As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risks of manual handling injuries in the workplace. You can find help with preventing these sort of risks in your workplace on our manual handling webpages. We have a range of information and guidance for employers, including sections on assessing manual handling and training for workers. There are also links to a variety of useful resources, which include our free-to-download publications: Manual handling at work: a brief guide Manual handling: guidance on Regulations
A 12-year-old child was killed in a collision at a tobogganing birthday party. The boy was descending the main ski slope on a toboggan when it slid into the back of a member of staff who was conducting a slope walk. The staff member fell backwards onto the child, who sadly died at the scene from resulting head injuries. HSE's investigation found that the skiing company, who were fined £100,000, had: failed to ensure the safety of its customers did not have a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for tobogganing activities and had not fully considered all persons likely to be on the slope during tobogganing
Read more about the incident in our press release: Indoor skiing company fined after child fatality. You can visit our news centre for more on recent enforcement cases. Make sure you comply with LOLER regulations and lift work equipment safely. HSE's website has guidance on the safe use of lifting equipment, which sets out what businesses should do to comply with LOLER. The webpages include: an overview of LOLER guidance on safe lifting by machines how to thoroughly examine lifting equipment the planning and organising of lifting operations
Steel company fined £100,000 for lifting activity failures A worker was crushed and suffered multiple rib fractures as well as internal injuries during this incident. HSE's investigation found the company had failed to ensure that the lifting activity was properly planned by a competent person, or carried out in a safe manner. You can get further information, and view a video of CCTV footage of the incident, at our press release: CCTV captures moment welder crushed at shipyard. HSE has produced guidance to help all those working in motor vehicle repair to safely store and handle airbags and seat belt pretensioners. If these devices are not handled correctly there is the possibility of physical injury and poisoning. The guidance provides simple precautions you can take to reduce the risks and includes information on: licensing safe storage safe handling requirements for supply
Visit HSE's website to read the guidance: Storing and handling airbags and seat belt pretensioners safely.
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