1. Manual Handling Training
2. Manual Handling Meaning

The Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) is a tool to help users identify high-risk workplace manual handling activities.

• The Manual Handling Assessment Charts (MAC) is a tool aimed at employers, health and safety managers and safety representatives and is used by health and safety inspectors. The tool will help individuals to assess the most common risk factors in lifting (and lowering), carrying and team handling.
• To help you assess manual handling risks, combat MSDs and implement the hierarchy of measures a number of different tools are available such as the MAC tool, manual handling risk assessment based on the TILEO acronym (schedule 1 of the MHOR 1992), DVDs, publications, guidance documents and manual handling training – such as train the trainer.

Employers and safety representatives can use the tool to assess the risks posed by lifting, carrying and team manual handling activities. It will help you understand, interpret and categorise the level of risk of the various known risk factors associated with these activities. MAC has a numerical and colour coding score system to highlight high-risk manual handling tasks.

Manual Handling Training

MAC is a tool developed to help users identify high-risk workplace manual handling activities. Employers and safety representatives can use the tool to assess the risks posed by lifting, carrying and team manual handling activities.

This version has been updated, following an extensive period of research, to reflect the latest scientific knowledge and our experience of how the tool is used in the workplace. It includes new illustrations, new team handling categories and weight limits, a more comprehensive score sheet, screening questions to check which assessment you should do, and space to list your control measures.

Although there have been some changes to categories and scoring, the main messages about the actions employers and workers should take to prevent risks have altered very little since the previous 2014 version. There is no change in policy or regulation.

Manual Handling Meaning

Note: This version of the MAC tool (published March 2019) is an update of the one published in November 2018. Several changes have been made to the scoresheet, but the main text has not been changed.