Posted By Jonathan Breeze Rosemary, There is no 'legal' maximum weight under the Regulations, the limit is set by your risk assessment under those regulations. However appendix 1 of the Guidance Note gives lots of advice on how to complete that risk assessment and mitigating factors that must be considered. I would be tempted to treat the 22kg limit you describe as a customer specification which cannot be exceeded without instruction from that customer, who will have their reasons for giving that figure (be they product spec. or their own risk assessment etc...) If possible, I personally would try to get significantly under this limit. I suggest you get further advice from someone who understands the full implications of the Manual Handling Operations Regs & include your customer in the process. Regards Jon

Posted By Dave Wilson Got to remember that this is for an 'individual person' to lift the weight, ideally it should be done by a mechanised process / machine / pallet truck etc or by more than one person if above. Look on HSE www in free leaflets section under manual handling for a bit more info. Suggest you ask the company / employer who will have to assemble the product and get their input