Manual handling industry guidance

Every industry faces unique hazardous manual handling challenges. Get the advice that’s right for you.

Automotive

Agriculture

Cleaning

Construction

Early learning and children’s services

Healthcare and social assistance

Hospitality

Manufacturing

Office work

Textile

Transport, warehousing and stock handling

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Manual handling industry guidance

Automotive

Removing and fitting vehicle wheels and tyres

Safe manual handling of chemicals in the automotive industry

Agriculture

Falling hay bales

Moving hay bales safely

Cleaning

Home care OHS compliance kit

Construction

Case study: Hazardous manual handling of construction material

Construction safety focus: Preventing musculoskeletal disorders

Loading bricks, blocks and mortar above shoulder height

Prevent handling above shoulder height when loading and unloading pallets

Reducing the need to manually handle concrete blocks

Safe unloading of stone or other heavy slabs

Safely unloading stone slabs and other large heavy items from A-frames

Early learning and children’s services

Early childhood education and care: Safety basics

Maintaining indoor and outdoor areas in children's services

Using cots, highchairs and change tables in early learning workplaces

Working at low levels in children's services

Moving equipment in children's services

Glass panes at early childhood education and care services

Storing supplies and equipment in children's services

Healthcare and social assistance

Case study: Consultation to prevent hazardous manual handling injuries

Transferring people safely

Designing workplaces for safer handling of people

Disability services OHS compliance kit

Home care OHS compliance kit

Assisting people in wheelchairs

Assisting people who have fallen

Handling wheelchairs in and out of vehicles

Moving and supporting people with a disability

Portable patient-handling ceiling hoists and hoist hooks

Transport people and equipment in vehicles

Transferring people for toileting and bathing

Transferring people from beds and chairs

Repositioning people in bed

Hospitality

Using equipment to access stock

Piping product

Manufacturing

Manual handling in the food manufacturing industry

Storage area layout and design

Manual handling in the red meat processing industry

Loading waste into large waste skips

Using trolleys in the food industry

Handling product in and out of storage shelving or racking

Opening and closing heavy doors

Cleaning large food-mixing bowls

Labelling packages

Handling packaging materials

Weighing product

Packing and inspecting product

Lifting process vessel lids

Handling and removing product from trays, racks or tins

Removing product from large stillages or containers

Removing solid product from mixing bowls

Handling full bottles, jars or containers

Handling empty bottles, jars or containers

Filling, weighing and stitching sacks or bags

Sealing tops of bottles, jars and containers

Adding liquid ingredients

Handling spindles and rolls of packaging

Handling spindles and rolls of packaging in food manufacturing

Handling tubs or containers of products

Handling 205-litre drums

Handling bags of ingredients

Safe use of knives in the meat and food industry

Portable framing systems for loaded pallets

Prevent handling above shoulder height when loading and unloading pallets

Case study: Improving workplace productivity by eliminating hazardous manual handling

Office work

Officewise: A guide to health and safety in the office handbook

Textile

Hazardous manual handling solutions in the textile industry

Transport, warehousing and stock handling

Choosing and using trolleys