Guidance

Health and safety for major road schemes: manual handling

Part of the 'Raising the bar' health and safety initiative to identify best practice, raise standards and improve supply chain engagement.

Documents

Raising the bar 8: Manual handling (November 2016)

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A set of best practice standards has been produced to improve the methods used for manual handling and lifting on construction sites.

This document forms part of the ‘Raising the bar’ health and safety initiative.

Updates to this page

Published 1 March 2013
Last updated 30 November 2016 + show all updates
  1. latest version of Manual Handling document added

  2. First published.

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