Health & Safety
Manual handling injuries are the most common cause of lost time in the trades, and the assessment that would have prevented them usually says 'lift carefully'. Gaffer records load weight, carry distance, frequency, posture and floor condition — the factors the TILE approach actually asks about.
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An assessment per task, built around the task, individual, load and environment factors.
Weight in kilograms, load type, and whether the load is unpredictable or awkward. A number is assessable; 'heavy' is not.
Carry distance in metres, repetitions per hour, posture risk, floor condition, restricted space and temperature extremes — the things that turn a manageable lift into an injury.
Individual risk factors and notes are part of the record, because the same lift is not the same risk for every person doing it.
Manual handling assessments connect to your jobs and team records, so an assessment covers real work by real people.
No — the Manual Handling Operations Regulations do not set a hard limit. HSE guidance gives filter figures that vary with the position of the load relative to the body, and anything above them warrants a fuller assessment. That is why Gaffer records the actual weight and the carry conditions rather than a pass/fail.
Task, Individual, Load, Environment — the four headings HSE uses for assessing a handling operation. The fields in a Gaffer assessment map onto those four, so the record is structured the way an inspector expects to read it.
Per task. A repeated handling operation — carrying boiler units up stairs, moving slabs, loading a chipper — is assessed once and reused, and reassessed if the task or the environment changes.
Yes, on mobile and offline. The assessment syncs when signal returns, so it can be completed at the point the task is actually being planned.
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