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2. Manual handling of loads - Wikipedia

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   Manual handling of loads (MHL) or manual material handling (MMH) involves the use of the human body to lift, lower, carry or transfer loads. The average person is exposed to manual lifting of loads in the work place, in recreational atmospheres, and even in the home.

3. National Disability Insurance Scheme - Wikipedia

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   The NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (NQSC) is the national agency tasked with regulating providers to the NDIS. This includes: protecting the safety of NDIS participants by coordinating nationally consistent screening of disability sector workers; promoting the use of least restrictive practices as part of behaviour management plans

4. Ergonomics for manual material handling - Wikipedia

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   Manual material handling tasks may expose workers to physical risk factors. If these tasks are performed repeatedly or over long periods of time, they can lead to fatigue and injury. The main risk factors, or conditions, associated with the development of injuries in manual material handling tasks include: Awkward postures (e.g., bending, twisting)

5. Manual labour - Wikipedia

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   Manual labour (in Commonwealth English, manual labor in American English) or manual work is physical work done by humans, in contrast to labour by machines and working animals. It is most literally work done with the hands (the word manual coming from the Latin word for hand ) and, by figurative extension, it is work done with any of the ...

6. Rigging (material handling) - Wikipedia

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   Rigging is the equipment such as wire rope, turnbuckles, clevis, jacks used with cranes and other lifting equipment [1] in material handling and structure relocation. Rigging systems commonly include shackles , master links and slings , and lifting bags in underwater lifting.

7. Pressure washing - Wikipedia

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   A pressure washer is used to remove old paint from a boat. Patio flagstones being pressure washed using a rotary nozzle. Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects such as buildings, vehicles and concrete surfaces.