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Question 1

hazardous task

Answer 1

Direct Risk Factors
• Force + Posture + Time

Contributing Factors
•	Environment
•	Load
•	Individual
•	Task
•	Equipment

Question 2

Legislation

• Anti-discrimination Act 1991

Answer 2

o Promotes human rights

o Makes sure everyone has the same ability to access facilities, equipment, vehicles etc.

Question 3

Legislation

• Workers Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

Answer 3

o Work Cover is the Insurer
o Is a no blame system
o Compensation for wages, expenses, access to help etc.

Question 4

• Workplace Health and Safety Act

Answer 4

o Imposes obligations on workplaces to ensure workplace health and safety
o Legally must follow the regulation
o Code of Practice can use what they say or find another way that is just as effective and is reasonably practicable
o People Handling is a manual hazardous task

Question 5

FURAT (Facility Unit Risk Assessment Tool)

Answer 5

• Designed to facilitate patient handling risk assessment at the operational level

• utility
• patient profile
• environment
• equipment
• staff and training
• patient handling tasks
• risk analysis/control plan
• Success Factors for moving and handling patients

Question 6

ergonomics

Answer 6

-CONSIDER ERGONOMICS IN TERMS OF BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL - PHYSICAL, COGNITIVE AND ORGANISATIONAL

Question 7

manual tasks become hazardous

Answer 7

• when:
o Repetitive or sustained force – 2X/MIN
o Sudden (JERKY) or high force
o Repetitive movement
o Sustained (> 30 MINS) and/or awkward posture (UNBALANCED AT EXTREME RANGE)
o Exposure to vibration
o (often there are 2 or more of these risk factors present)

Question 8

• Duration:

Answer 8

Long duration = >2hrs (total) over a whole shift, or >30min continuously

Question 9

Sources of Risk:

Answer 9

1. Design of work area and layout
2. Nature, size, weight or number of things handled.
3. Use of tools
4. PPE
5. System of work (i.e. shift patterns, KPIs, monotony, cognitive demand).
6. Environment
7. General Public
8. Psychosocial
9. The individual (i.e. anthropometrics, age, gender, health status, skill level).

Question 10

Risk Management Process:

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Answer 10

1. Identify hazards – identification of hazardous manual tasks (observations, reports of discomfort, staff surveys).
2. Assess risks (if necessary)
3. Control Risks – elimination, substitution, redesign, engineering, administration, PPE.
4. Review Control Measures

Question 11

Tools:

È ManTRA

Answer 11

(Manual Task Risk Assessment)
o –specific body parts
o considers exposure, duration,
o Considers 5 characteristics cycle time, force, speed, awkwardness and vibration
o Cycle time has to be 5 minutes if doing 1 repetition
o Used for force analysis
o Most of the aspects are subjective

Question 12

Tools

• REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) –

Answer 12

o Postural Analysis looks at all body segments and comes up with a full body score
o Provides urgency of action required

Question 13

Tools

• Liberty Mutual Tables

Answer 13

o Provides the percentage of the female/male population that can do a manual handling task without over-exertion
o Design manual tasks for > 75% of the female work population best protection from manual handling injuries:
o However doesn’t account for how weight is lifted ***