Sound Advice Safety & Health Ltd
49 Melford Court,
Hardwick Grange,
Woolston,
Warrington,
Cheshire.
WA1 4RZ
Telephone: 01925 838350
Fax: 01925 838351
Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk
49 Melford Court,
Hardwick Grange,
Woolston,
Warrington,
Cheshire.
WA1 4RZ
Telephone: 01925 838350
Fax: 01925 838351
Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk
On-Site Health Surveillance
Occupational Health Services
Our Services Include:
- New starter work health assessments (was pre-employment questionnaire)
- Sickness absence management
- Skin Checks (Dermatitis)
- Night worker medicals
- Lone worker health assessments
- Fork lift truck (FLT) medicals
- Management referrals
- Stress management
- Hand arm vibration syndrome
(HAVS) clinical assessments
Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders
WRULD (RSI) - is a condition in which repetitive movements are associated with chronic incapacitating forearm pain and disability and more specifically to occupational causation of arm pain.
Musculoskeletal disorders are by far the most common form of work-related ill-health problem in Great Britain. They can prove costly for the individual and the business:
- Specialised equipment may be required.
- Sickness absence.
- Ultimately the employee may not be able to continue in their job.
Symptoms may include:
- Pain.
- Tingling.
- Pins and needles.
- Swelling.
- Reduced ability to move the affected limb.
- Stiffness and cramp.
Symptoms may be caused by:
- A single strain or trauma (not necessarily a repetitive or cumulative one).
- Force - to much manual force.
- Frequency and duration of movement (unsuitable rates of working or repetition of a single element.
- Awkward posture of the hand, arm, wrist or shoulder.
Workers in the UK at a high risk of WRULDS may include:
- Electronics and telecommunications.
- Armed forces.
- Construction workers.
- Poultry and food processing.
- Garment and carpet manufacture.
- Domestic appliance manufacture.
- Packing and manufacture of small items e.g. biscuits.
- Cleaning operations involving the use of heavy polishers.
- Display screen equipment users.
- Supermarket checkout operators.
- Laboratory technicians.
Some of the more common specific identifiable WRULDs
- Bursitis.
- Carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Cellulitis.
- Epicondylitis (Tennis elbow).
- Ganglion.
- Osteo-arthritis.
- Tendinitis.
- Tenosynovitis.
- Tension of the neck or shoulder.
- Trigger finger/Vibration white finger/HAVS.
Employers are required to:
- Avoid, where reasonably practicable, the need for employees to undertake any manual handling operations involving risk of injury.
- Where avoidance is not reasonably practicable to:
- Make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the manual handling operation to be undertaken;
- Reduce the risk of injury to the lowest level reasonably practicable;
- Provide employees with general indications or, if possible, precise information about the weight, heaviest side and centre of gravity of a load.
- All employees involved in manual handling operations must comply with the work system provided.
Preventative measures:
- Risk assessments.
- Reduce or eliminate exposure.
- Regular breaks.
- Job modifications / alternative work.
- Alteration in design of equipment - reduce force levels/consider effects of any hand protection / maintenance of tools / automation for repetitive movements/reduction of machine pace/postural changes (either move the machine or the operator).
- Training.
- Assessments at pre-employment - so reasonable adjustments can be considered.
At Sound Advice Safety and Health Ltd we can help you identify these potential problems and advise on the best way in which to prevent them. This can be done either at pre-employment or if any concerns are raised in the work place.
Contact us now on 01925 838350 and speak to one of our consultants for further advice on your company's needs.
Tel: (01925) 838350 - Fax: (01925) 838351 - Email: office@soundadviceltd.co.uk