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- Manual Handling Case Study 15 Handling Hotel Linen
- On Screen Text: Manual Handling: Handling of linen in a hotel bedroom
- Hotel employee removing linen from hotel bedroom
- Scene 1:
A hotel employee has just finished changing the linen on a bed. He walks out of the hotel room and down a corridor to throw the linen into an already-full black bag. He then throws the bag over his shoulder and down the corridor further, and throws the black bag into a lift. The lift is already full of other black linen bags. - On Screen Text:
Need to carry out a risk assessment of this task
Look at how the job is carried out
Collect information: Load weight, etc
Identify risk factors with the job
Make changes to improve the job - On Screen Text:
Risk Factors/Problems - Scene 2:
Still image of character throwing the bag into the lift. Large Red “X” marks indicate the risk factors with the job.
Load is too heavy
Load is too large
Difficult to grasp
Physical effort is too strenuous
Bending and twisting of the trunk - On Screen Text:
The new system of work: Assess risk to reduce and reorganise manual handling - Scene 3:
The hotel employee put the used bed linen into a linen trolley, rolls the trolley out of the room and down the corridor to the waiting lift. He rolls the trolley into the lift. - On Screen Text:
Manual Handling : Assess to avoid, reduce or reorganise
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