Smart Move - Guides

Guides

Smart move toolkit
The Smart move toolkit provide employers and workers with information and advice on a recommended generic framework for preventing MSDs in the workplace. The Toolkit has been developed to assist businesses with some understanding of manual handling and are seeking further information, guidance and ideas in implementing MSD prevention programs.
Climbing in and out of vehicles (pdf 91kb)
Design and selection of trolleys (pdf 123kb)
Lifting safely from low levels (pdf 92kb)
Manual handling risk guide (pdf 672kb)
Implementing a safer patient handling system (pdf 763 kb)
Manual handling for bricklaying (pdf 204kb)
Manual handling - Shearing and wool handling (pdf 290kb)
Guide to manual order picking (pdf 112kb)
Preventing injury from packing and unpacking shipping containers and enclosed trolleys (pdf 151kb)
Participative ergonomic blueprint (pdf 225kb)
This guide has been reproduced with the kind permission of Richard Wells from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada www.cre-msd.uwaterloo.ca and the Institute for Work & Health, Toronto Canada www.iwh.on.ca.