Categories: health and safety

  • Heavy metal access cover requiring four people to remove and replace using unsafe lifting techniques

    Composites Set a New Standard for Manual Handling

    Over the last two years, a staggering 4.5 million working days were lost to workplace injuries. A fifth of these were caused by manual handling . One common activity which contributes to this, posing a high risk of manual handling injuries is the removal and replacement of heavy concrete and metal manhole and trench covers.

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