To assess manual handling risks, certain tools were developed and factors were considered. These factors include tasks, worker, load and environment. Assessment should be comprehensive and consistent.

Some heavy equipments and tools are advisable because it is safer and can decrease company’s cost due to accidents. Sites or workplace must be well lit and clean. It should be free from waste, hazardous materials and obstructions. Everybody should observe good housekeeping. Performance and safety kits and devices should be well monitored. Everyone must comply with control measures and all activities should be carefully planned.

There is also Manual Handling Assessment Chart (MAC) Tool, which was developed so that workers will be able to identify high risk workplace. Also, this tool is designed to assess risk factors caused by lifting, carrying and team handling activities. It aims to help workers and employers to interpret and understand risks, and to categories them according to certain levels.

Manual handling accidents not only cause physical damages to human, it can also cause loss of money, work delays and risks reputation of company. A complete application of safety rules and good management will result to effective and productive work environment.

In my case they include My Documents, Outlook emails and other files that are modified over time. I do this by keeping a permanent rewritable DVD inside DVD burner. I then rotate a number of DVD’s for this purpose so I can keep copies away from computer.

Whenever I install important new programs from Internet or I make other major changes to my system I’ll also create a new disk image backup and a full hard disk backup.

You should use a DVD burner that is built for rewritable DVDs. Unfortunately there are several competing DVD standards on market.

The DVD-R, DVD-R and DVD-RAM standards supports DVDs which only can be written to once and can’t be reused and those standards should be avoided.

The DVD player should instead support at least one rewritable DVDs standard. Either DVD-RW or DVD+RW.

Conclusion: I use regular schedule backup to backup data files I work with on a daily basis.

I’ll make a disk image backup so that in case of a hard disk failure I will be back in business fast.

I also create a full disk backup so that I will be able to restore individual files or folders. It makes it also possible to move data to another computer.

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