Hazardous manual task resources
This page contains resources to help keep your workers safe from hazardous manual task risks.
Codes of practice
- Hazardous manual tasks code of practice 2021 (PDF, 1.38 MB)
- Manual Tasks Involving the Handling of People Code of Practice 2001 (PDF, 1.18 MB)
Guides and fact sheets
- Manual tasks risk management worksheet (PDF, 0.23 MB)
- Hazardous manual task systems self-assessment tool (PDF, 0.22 MB)
- Tips for hazardous manual task training (DOCX, 0.86 MB)
- Slips, trips and falls at level self-assessment tool (PDF, 0.19 MB)
- Slips, trips and falls at level incident worksheet (PDF, 0.1 MB)
- Knife sharpening programs in the red meat processing industry
- A better way of working – Preventing sprains and strains in construction (PDF, 0.31 MB)
- Manual tasks risk register examples (DOCX, 0.91 MB)
- Physical and mental impacts on safety in the transport supply chain (PDF, 2.32 MB)
- Slips trips and falls prevention guide (PDF, 0.55 MB)
- Safe use of laptops (PDF, 0.1 MB)
- When community workers come to your home (PDF, 1.2 MB)
- Guide to working safety in peoples homes (PDF, 1.93 MB)
- Restricted use lifts in homes for people with limited mobility (PDF, 0.08 MB)
- Ergonomic assessment of load restraint devices in the transport industry (PDF, 0.47 MB)
- Load restraint devices to tension chains
- Guidelines for working with computers
- Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) action plan 2016-22 (PDF, 0.17 MB)
- Supervisors and risk management – a case study in the manufacturing industry (PDF, 1.19 MB)
Films
Webinars
- Musculoskeletal Disorders Symposium encore webinar series
- Construction work health forum encore webinar series
- Council of the City of Gold Coast PErforM program
- CSR Limited - Manual handling project
- Engaging with your workers
- The link between MSDs and psychosocial risk factors
Reports
- Leadership in major contractors: preventing sprain and strain injuries report (PDF, 1.68 MB)
- Leadership in major contractors: preventing sprain and strain injuries summary (PDF, 0.6 MB)
Tools
- ManTRA eTool
- Construction hazardous manual tasks site verification assessment tool (DOC, 0.17 MB)
- Construction hazardous manual tasks risk management systems assessment tool (DOCX, 0.07 MB)
PErforM program
Below is a suite of PErforM resources developed to assist employers with implementing PErforM in their workplace.
- PErforM resource manual for workplace trainers (PDF, 0.93 MB)
- PErforM frequently asked questions (PDF, 0.05 MB)
eTool
Handbooks
- Participative ergonomics for manual tasks (PErforM) handbook (PDF, 1.08 MB)
- PErforM worksheets 1 and 2 (DOC, 0.28 MB)
Powerpoint presentations
- PErforM for management powerpoint presentation (PPTX, 4.93 MB)
- PErforM for trainers powerpoint presentation (PPT, 9.21 MB)
- PErforM for work teams powerpoint presentation (PPT, 8.18 MB)
Films
Webinars
- PErforM network webinar: Sundale
- The link between MSDs and psychosocial risk factors
- Engaging with your workers
- Council of the City of Gold Coast PErforM program
- CSR Limited - Manual handling project
Case studies
- Moving gas bottles – Monarch Building Systems (PDF, 0.15 MB)
- Manually moving wall panels – Monarch Building Systems
- Handling oxy bottles – Monadelphous Engineering (PDF, 0.11 MB)
- Maintaining the internal lining of furnaces – Bradken (PDF, 0.11 MB)
- Unloading containers – TJM Products (PDF, 0.1 MB)
- Using an oxy cutting/welding torch on rotators – Monadelphous Engineering (PDF, 0.12 MB)