Professional Manual Handling Risk Assessment:
Under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act, 2005, and the General Applications Regulations 2007 Chapter 4, Part 2, S.I 299 of 2007, it is the duty of employers to take organisational measures to design their workplace, work processes, workstations and systems of work to eliminate manual handling in so far as is reasonably practicable. Where this is not possible the employer must assess, or get a competent person to do it on their behalf, any residual risk posed and reduce it to levels which are acceptable in the interim.