The work organisation factors
Ensure you think about how the work involving manual handling is organised, consider the following:
Work organisation factors:
- is the work repetitive or boring?
- is work machine or system-paced?
- do workers feel the demands of the work are excessive?
- have workers little control of the work and working methods?
- is there poor communication between managers and employees?
Can you:
- change tasks to reduce the monotony?
- make more use of workers’ skills?
- make workloads and deadlines more achievable?
- encourage good communication and teamwork?
- involve workers in decisions?
- provide better training and information?