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Posted By N Knight
I am working on a project with a further education college which includes bricklaying on it's curriculum and at intervals the students are required to barrow waste bricks to the skip and 'hand ball' them into the skip.
I would like to find a system to avoid the manual handling element and wonder if any members have knowledge of a suitable system.
There is no fork lift truck available so a conventional tipping skip is not an option.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Nick
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Posted By Raymond Rapp
Nick
Presumably your students are gaining experience of working in a construction environment as well as building brick walls or whatever. Plenty of manual handling on a construction site, including the movement and disposal of bricks. Would it not be better to take the opportunity to show your students some good manual handling techniques.
Ray
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Posted By Peter_hse
One option depending on the layout of the area would be to have the skip at a lower level so that the materials can be tipped downwards rather than thrown upwards but I appreciate that this is an option that is rarely available.
One alternative that I've used in the past is the low-level type skip where you can walk into the skip and tip a wheelbarrow inside and walk out again. There is a drop-down end door to enter the skip.
Hope that might work. Otherwise it's definitely specific MH training as already suggested.
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Posted By Bob Youel
This is also an ideal learning opportunity as such materials should be treated as per a construction SWMP situation and not simply mixed together and thrown away - - Your college etc should have an environmental policy so look at that and work to it
Additionally manual handling cannot always be fully eliminated so again use this as a training opportunity i.e. confirm that risk assessments been carried out and the students know of and understand them!
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