RAISE YOUR GAME ON SAFE LIFTING

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RAISE YOUR GAME ON SAFE LIFTING
30 April 2004 - HSE InfoLine

Raise your game on safe lifting, this is the Health and Safety Executive's message to Safe Equipment Demonstration visitors this year.

The HSE stand will focus on planning lifting operations, selecting the right equipment and involving competent people. Morris Materials Handling Ltd will be demonstrating how to sling loads safely and showing examples of worn and defective lifting accessories.

A static display on the use of vacuum lifting aids attached to a mini-digger will represent how to avoid manually handling heavy kerbstones.

In addition HSE inspectors will be on hand to answer questions and advise on all aspects of health and safety in the construction environment.

Safe lifting operations is a key inspection priority for HSE this year. Inspectors will concentrate their efforts on this issue along with falls and site transport during a UK-wide blitz being undertaken in June 2004.

HSE free information leaflets on a wide range of health and safety topics will be available.

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Britain's Health and Safety Commission (HSC) and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are responsible for the regulation of almost all the risks to health and safety arising from work activity in Britain.

The HSE looks after health and safety in nuclear installations and mines, factories, farms, hospitals and schools, offshore gas and oil installations, the safety of the gas grid and the movement of dangerous goods and substances, railway safety, and many other aspects of the protection both of workers and the public. Local authorities are responsible to HSC for enforcement in offices, shops and other parts of the services sector.

The HSC is sponsored by the Department of Work and Pensions and is ultimately accountable to the Minister of State for Work, the Right Honourable Jane Kennedy MP.

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