Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks

A Safe Work Australia model code of practice on preventing musculoskeletal disorders from hazardous manual tasks: lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying, holding or restraining, and work with repetitive or sustained force, awkward postures or vibration. It explains how to identify these tasks, assess their risks in consultation with workers, and control them, first through the design of the work, the workplace and the equipment used.

Type

Codes of practice

Applies in

Australia

Issued by

Safe Work Australia

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