Risk assessments for scaffolders
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Risk assessments for scaffolders
Added: 15:46 07.09.2007
I need to put together a risk assessment for a scaffolder who routinely carries 1,500mm-long scaffold poles weighing from about 33kg to 40kg on his left shoulder to and from the delivery lorry.
He has been a scaffolder for 15 years and has had a number of relatively minor musculoskeletal injuries, but has recently experienced a severe back injury.
It occurred while he was leaning forward to lower the poles on to the ground to lean them vertically against the side of the lorry. He intended to lift them onto the lorry one at a time.
Can anyone help?
Anon