Caring for cleaners: Guidance and case studies on how to prevent musculoskeletal disorders

Date of publication:

2003

ISBN:

9780717626823

Series code:

HSG234

Price:

£9.50

Extensive and easy-to-navigate guidance for industry employers, managers/supervisors, health and safety personnel, trainers, safety and union representatives and cleaners themselves. Documents in detail the need for awareness - and control - of the routine manual handling and upper limb injury risks regularly facing cleaners.

Presenting a collection of five-stage case studies (ie task, problem, solution finding, result and lessons), which examine how individual organisations have reached various circumstantial solutions to minimise musculoskeletal hazards, the guidance emphasises that many of the safety measures implemented were simple and cost-effective developments devised mutually between supervisors, managers, employee representatives and cleaners. Complemented by an extensive series of colour illustrations throughout, it also offers an aide-memoire of useful tips, checklist sheets and a cleaner's health questionnaire.