Back attack! The real cost of manual handling injuries

 Manual handling. It’s such an innocuous term describing a seemingly innocuous action. Yet without proper training and ergonomic workplace design, this can lead to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). In fact, according to the HSE, manual handling causes over a third of all workplace injuries  currently affecting one million people a year and costing society £5.7 billion. MSDs affect the muscles, joints, tendons and other parts of the musculoskeletal system, causing pain and damage in the arms, legs, back, shoulders and neck as well as a variety of repetitive strain injuries. Read full article from here: