Industry specific guidance
Guidance specific to certain industries or activities on reducing the risks of back pain
HSE have also produced guidance specific to certain industries or activities on reducing the risks of back pain.
HSE free publications
- Special educational needs: Moving and handling
- Handling the news
- Injuries in food and drink industry
- Kitchen and food staff info sheet
- Manual packing of bricks
- Mark a parcel save a back
- Manual handling in textiles
- Manual handling in woodworking
- Manual handling on Farms
- Refuse collection leaflet
- Roll cages and wheeled racks in food and drink industry
- Sack handling in food and drink
- Working with VDUs
- Understanding Ergonomics
Priced publications (HSG Series)
- Handling home care (ISBN 0717622282)
- Manual handling in the health services (ISBN 0717612481)
- Caring for cleaners (ISBN 0717626822)
- Manual handling in drinks delivery (ISBN 0717607313)
- Backs for the future: safe manual handling in construction (ISBN 0717611221)
- Moving food and drinks: manual handling solutions for the food and drinks industries (ISBN 0717617319
- Well handled: off-shore manual handling solutions (ISBN 0717613852)
- Checkouts and Musculoskeletal Disorders INDG269
HSE internal guidance
- Beer Delivery
- Lifting Scaffold Tubes
- MSDs in Glass Industry
- Public Service Programme 06/07 for MSDs in Health Services
- Manual handling in teams during the fabrication of roof trusses
- Manual handling risks during assistance of disabled passengers boarding or disembarking aircraft
- Baggage handling on the ramp
- MSD in Crane Drivers in Docks
- MH of TV sets
- MSDs in Cheese Making
- Patient Handling in Health Care
- Patient Handling Risks
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