This is used to assess the risks posed by lifting, lowering, carrying and team manual handling activities. It is designed to help you understand, interpret and categorise the level of risk of various known risk …

Assess the risk of injury from any hazardous manual handling operations that cannot be avoided.

Employers and safety representatives can use the tool to assess the risks posed by lifting, carrying and team manual handling activities. It will help you understand, interpret and categorise the level of risk …

The assessment part of the MAC Tool is now available to use for free. Simply visit the link below and follow the instructions on screen to create an assessment.

Information regarding the use of the Manual handling assessment chart (MAC tool), when assessing the risks associated with manual handling.

For each of these types of handling there is a flow chart which leads you, step-by-step, through each factor of the manual handling operation, enabling you to evaluate and grade the degree of risk.

The Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) is a tool to help in the identification of common risk factors in lifting, carrying and team handling operations. The MAC helps the assessor to identify the …

A major cause of MSDs is poor manual handling. To help employers properly assess tasks, HSE has produced a series of tools.

The report outlines the most common risk factors associated with each type of manual handling task. This helps identify common themes across multiple tasks and empowers organisations to identify …

The Toolkit is a collection of tools developed by HSE to help employers and employees identify common risk factors covering manual handling operations including lifting and carrying, pushing and pulling …