Object Handling Course
I spent the morning on an object handling course. Now I can lift boxes of appropriate size and weight safely…
…until the next time I throw my back out.
If you are used to doing something in a certain way apparently even if the employer’s risk assessment shows it should be done in a different way, you still have a claim, since it’s the ‘done way’*.
Turns out there are risk assessments for every job I should come across held somewhere in the cooncil offices. These are, by law, to be made available to any employee on request…
I can see some poor office girl getting a new load of work in the near future!
Billy 
*Done way was put using better jargon, C&C, but I can’t remember what the Cs stand for. Means accepted way of doing things anyhow, look it up!
[edit 18th April 2007 - Custom and Practise! not c&c at all[/edit]
