Both the transport and care sectors were identified as targets for this campaign because in most EU member states they present or likely to present significant manual handling ill health.

EU experience indicates that inspectors find manual handling more difficult to address than most other topics. If we maintain a wider view we can potentially impact a larger population at risk and thus increase any multiplier effect from the pan European project.

It also enables greater flexibility in any member state where there may already have been improvements made in a specific area and effort needs to be applied elsewhere.

A SLIC-working group has prepared Control Tables for both the transport and the care sectors. They contain a description of the facts, the possible problems on manual handling of loads, differentiated by sub sector and function but also describes the solutions for the problems.

Here the whole document is available:

 Control Tables for tansport and care sectors (file, 60 kB)