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As the waste management and recycling industry grows rapidly in response to environmental concerns, RMP look at the significant risks to local authorities, their staff and or contractors, and members of the public.
The RAPP Tool
Introduction
The obligation on an employer to assess the risks from manual handling has existed for over 30 years.
Assessing manual handling risks can be daunting, especially if you are not familiar with more complicated activities of moving and handling in the workplace.
Varying standards achieved by employers in producing their risk assessment prompted the Health and Safety Executive in 2003 to develop the Manual Handling Assessment Chart Tool (MAC Tool) to assist employers. The Risk Assessment of Pushing and Pulling (RAPP Tool)2 is intended to be used alongside the MAC Tool.
The RAPP tool uses an observation approach to assist the assessor, looking at a structured series of factors that can have an impact on health and safety during pushing and pulling activities.
The tool focusses on two aspects of manual handling, the movement of loads on wheeled equipment, and the movement of loads without wheels which may involve the dragging, sliding, churning (pivoting and rolling) or rolling of the load.
Critical to the overall assessment is how often the load must be moved.
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