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Posted By Penfold
Please help.
Does anyone know how much an average office CRT monitor weighs? Better still, has anyone carried out a risk assessment on one?
Thanks if anyone can help
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Posted By A Campbell
Average??
Is this a desk based assessment?
i believe they come in all sorts of shapes and sizes... size of screen 12, 17, 19, 21 inch?
Make .. model....
Not even close to accuracy I think?
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Posted By Penfold
Not desk based, just homework before the event. These guys move 100's per year across the country. It is unlikely that when I go to assess, they will not have each and every individual monitor with them. More likely that they will have an average one. That's why I'm looking here to get a head start.
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Posted By Flic
The one on my desk at home weighs around 10kg I would estimate. Obviously larger ones weigh a lot more, and the really large monitors need two people to lift them.
It really is a case of how long is a piece of string!
To be pragmatic, they are not the easiest things to grab hold of, and I suspect that they reach the weight where you would want someone to help you at about the time when you cannot get your arms around one securely anyway
Flic
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Moving 100s across the country implies transport, inplies protective packaging (which could involve putting the weight on the packaging if that's how you leave it with the customer), which should in turn allow for the ready use of small handling trolleys and bungee straps.
Residual issue is always going to be knowledge/training on correct handling technique to get them "out of the box" and onto the desk.
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Posted By Stuff4blokes
Ron, I suspect that this posting is more about getting these off the desk and in to a recycling stream. Thus no packaging.
Flic's suggestion seems to me to be very sensible.
It's may also be useful to note that the greater weight is usually towards the front of the screen and a manual lift should therefore take this into account (screen close to body, not the other way round).
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Posted By Penfold
This is an IT department where travelling is very much involved and only involves a handful of people. Most handling will be the removal of the CRT monitors from desks as we are replacing most with flat screens. So no packaging
Thanks Flic. 10 Kgs sounds about right. It gives me a ball park to work in. I will be following up with MH training. So where heavier ones are identified the guys in the field will make an assessment.
I like that word pragmatic. It is all too easy to get bogged down with detail. How could you carry out a manual handling risk assessment on a removals company (don't answer that one!!)
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Posted By Ron Hunter
Oops! I kinda missed the obvious there!
Lightweight trolleys though should be a consideration of the Manual Handling Assessment.
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