6) Manual Handling Policy At Insert your Business name here we are committed to providing and maintaining a safe and healthy environment for employees and visitors. We are committed to preventing and reducing work related injuries associated with manual handling tasks and ensuring that we comply with the Work Health and Safety Act and the Work Health and Safety Regulations. We will achieve this by: - Promoting and supporting a consultative process between employees and managers - Ensuring that all manual handling tasks likely to pose a foreseeable risk to health and safety are assessed and control meaSures are implemented to eliminate or reduce the - Designing out problems with equipment, procedures and the workplace surroundings - Supporting a special program for addressing manual handling issues Our Managers are accountable for ensuring that the WHS Act and the WHS Regulations are implemented and that employees receive adequate training to safely perform their tasks. Employees are encouraged to raise and discuss manual handling issues as they arise so that we can continuously improve health and safety performance