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MAC makes impression at printing health and safety seminar
HSC's Printing Industries Advisory Committee (PIAC), a tripartite committee composed of representatives of the CBI, TUC and HSE, last month held what the 80 or so delegates attending considered a successful health and safety seminar with a focus on manual handling for the printing and publishing industry.The free event for the sector in Southwest England briefed on the relevant major health and safety issues, with time devoted to a demonstration of HSE’s Manual Handling Assessment Chart (MAC) tool by an HSE ergonomist. One attendee expressed the view that the demonstration had given him ‘the wherewithal to carry out manual handling risk assessments in-house’ - later adding that he cancelled a visit from a health and safety consultant because he now felt he could ‘go it alone’.
“Manual handling was chosen as the theme of the seminar because of the increasing numbers of manual handling injuries in printing. HSE also recognise that many printers need help to get started on manual handling risk assessment. The MAC tool takes the mystique out of the process and is also easy to use. It is free to download from HSE’s web site and there are online video case studies to take people through the process.
In the last year, HSE received reports of around 500 manual handling injuries from the printing and publishing sectors – 34% of all reported injuries from those sectors. If we are to make inroads into reducing ill-health in these industries, it makes sense to start here.”- HSE official specific responsibility for printing.
