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Posted By Ian Clay1
I am about to undrrtake a review of a lacking area within the company of Manual Handling assessments. Corporately they are encouraging us to use the HSE mac tool. I have looked at this and was interested to know if any others out there have used this tool and how succesful it has been.
also how easy is the information passed on to employees.
i also notice you cannott sqve an electronic version on your system has anyone got around this?
Many thanks for your help
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Posted By MS
Is a mac tool for flipping burgers?
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Posted By David Whaley
Ian,
I have used the tool and run training sessions for our managers on the use of the tool. However, it doesn't cover individual capability, i.e. an individuals ability to lift or carry nor does it cover pushing and pulling.
What it does do is to highlight areas of the activity that requires any corrective actions, and as with any assessment method, it's what you do with the results that is important. If you do not take action on the findings it's a waste of time.
It's a good tool for what it does, take the time to understand and practice it's use.
If you need any further information contact me direct.
Hope this helps
David
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Posted By Karen Todd
Use of MAC tool does not constitute a suitable & sufficient manual handling risk assessment. Long story, but we let HSE on site to look at various tasks using the MAC tool. Some tasks they had concerns about, and for 1 of those there was no manual handling risk assessment. At that point, although we had missed this task, we held off doing a MHRA for it because a) we'd done the MAC assessment, and b) HSE were coming back with their ergonomist to advise further so we thought if we did a MHRA we'd only have to change it anyway after hearing what the ergonomist had to say so we thought we'd do the proper MHRA after HSE visited with their ergonomist. Result? HSE visited with their ergonomist and slapped us with a prohibition notice for that task, and an improvement notice for manual handling risk assessments in general.
So in my view if you use the MAC tool, you're still going to have to do a proper MHRA anyway, so it equals extra work.
KT
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Posted By David Whaley
Karen,
Our experience is exactly opposite to yours. I agree the assessment is not suitable and sufficient because of the limitation mentioned in my previous response, i.e. individual capability, which must be taken into account. However, it covers the areas of lifting and carrying quite well.
Ask the people who carry out the work if they have any concerns, then look at those concerns, analyse using the MAC system and take action to reduce the risk identified. This combined with training reduced our lost time by 70%.
The MAC system does work but only as part of an overall strategy.
David
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