Petition Fund Manual Handling Training For All Construction Workers

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Construction has the highest rate of manual handling incidents and reports more than 25,000 back injuries every year. Nearly half of construction workers over 50 now suffer persistent back pain.

According to the Institute of Occupational Medicine, half of construction employers offer no manual handling training to their workers.

The CITB's levy-funded 'Health, Safety and Environment Test' only claims to "ensure that workers have a MINIMUM level of health, safety and environmental awareness".

Considering back pain costs us £19 BILLION every year, I think that a certification of manual handling training, employing the most efficacious methodologies evidenced, should be mandatory for all UK construction workers and should be Government funded.

Prevention is far cheaper than treatment.

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Date closed 4 October 2013
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