Manual Handling

The Manual handing operations regulations 1992

The health and safety executive (HSE) has produced guidelines to founding regarding safe manual handing techniques and procedures. This is necessary because injuries caused by poor lifting techniques result in thousands of just days of work each year.

Manual handing means than simple lifting or carrying something. The terms is used to describe activates lifting lowering pushing, carrying, moving, handing or restarting an object animals or persons

To keep safety when handing any things which means safe environment during moving or handing equipment.

How this applied in the health and social care environment.

They have to follow manual handing mechanism. They are

a. Plan your journey a head

b. Use the appropriate personal protective equipment e.g. shoes

c. Posture

* Keep the spin in its normal alignment

* Please your feet apart to have good balance

* Position your feet forwards the direction your intend to go

* Bend from the knees

* Keep arms with in the

* Use the power of legs to lift and close the local to the your body

* An arrival put the load down

Food safety Act 1990

The main feature of the food safety act 1990

* To ensure that all food meets consumers expectation on the terms of nature substance and quality and presentation

* Provide legal power and specific offence in relation to retail to public health and consumer.

* It also cover the fond distribution chain form production to retail and catering.

Food safety acct 1990

How applied in health social care

The legislation lays down rules which apply to everyone involved in the production storage distribution or sale of food with the social care.

All stuff how prepared food for users of service in day centre residential sating and hospital must follow the guidelines. The guide line include basic hygiene principle for handing and preparing food.

The legislation contain specific...