Why have the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 been put in place?

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The manual handling operational regulations set specific legal

requirements to ensure employees undertaking manual handling

operations at work avoid the risk of injury. The regulations place

a specific duty of care on the part on both employers and

employees. Under the regulations manual handling is regarded as any

transporting or supporting of a load, including lifting, sitting

down, pulling or pushing, carrying or moving, by hand or bodily

force. The regulations would apply to work which involves holding

loads such as lifting crates, packaged goods, pushing or pulling a

trolley.

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