Author: Tom Harrison

04/03/26

Manual Handling Techniques: Universal Best Practices for Safer Lifting and Moving

The release of the last Labour Force Survey from Health and Safety England paints a sobering portrait of Britain’s workplace safety: between 2024 and 2025, one hundred and twenty-four worker fatalities and an estimated 680,000 non-fatal injuries were recorded, 17% of the latter due to a manual handling accident. It’s undisputable, then, that manual handling …

04/02/26

Why Manual Handling Safety Matters in 2026: Best Practices for Keeping Your People Safe 

Manual handling safety isn’t merely a hollow exercise of dotting the ‘I’s and crossing the ‘T’s; it’s a matter of operational efficiency, compliance and, above all else, workers rights.   No one deserves to feel unsafe in their workplace, yet manual handling remains a top cause of workplace absence, despite the buzz around automation and AI-driven innovation. Given that in the 2024/25 period, 680,000 workers sustained a non-fatal injury in the workplace, there’s plenty of room …

07/01/26

HSG76 Summarised: Essential HSE Warehousing & Storage Guidance for Managers & Supervisors

According to 2025 data gathered by the UK’s workplace health and safety regulator, Health and Safety Executive (HSE), around 2.3 million working days are lost each year in the transport and storage sector due to workplace injury and work-related illness. It’s unsurprising, then, that, for many warehousing leaders, health and safety training is near the …

03/12/25

What is Manual Handling? An Introductory Guide for Safer Workplaces

To an outsider, the term ‘manual handling’ might sound like it pertains to physically moving heavy loads. While this is often true, it’s only part of the story. In high-pressure environments involving material goods – from fast-paced distribution centres and factories to smaller yet equally dynamic stockrooms or garden centres – manual handling tasks are …

05/11/25

What is a Pallet Truck? Everything You Need to Know & More

You may have unwittingly seen them in garden centres, DIY stores, on building sites or even in your own place of work, perhaps tucked into a stockroom. But what is a pallet truck? These nifty pieces of manual handling equipment are essential devices for moving palletised goods across all sorts of working environments, and in …

01/10/25

How to Conduct an Effective Manual Handling Risk Assessment: Minimise Accidents, Injury & Damages with Advice from the Specialists

Risk assessments have been making workplaces safer, more enjoyable places to be for the better part of a century, but it wasn’t until the advent of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) that this tool for compliance was enshrined in UK law. Since then, risk assessments have come a long way, shaping our …

03/09/25

How To Stack Pallets Safely In A Warehouse And Beyond: A Practical Guide For Smoother Operations

In fast-paced working environments, from warehouses to retail stockrooms, knowing how to stack pallets safely is essential – not just for maximising space, but for maintaining a safe workplace for everyone. Poorly stacked pallets can lead to serious incidents, including injuries from falling loads, damaged stock, and costly disruptions (both in terms of money and …

06/08/25

Securing Health and Safety in the Warehouse: A Bird’s Eye View of Working Conditions & Compliance

Warehousing operations have come a long way since their early days. We no longer rely solely on brute strength and brainpower – although both remain crucial assets – as waves of technological innovation have swept in and disrupted the sector. However, with automation comes increasing demand and operational complexity, which makes the task of ensuring …

07/07/25

10 Different Types of Forklift Trucks: Understanding Their Classifications, Features & Uses

Forklifts are a staple of the material handling sector. You may see them from time to time on farms or construction sites, or perhaps more likely if you are reading this, on a daily basis in your place of work, be it a warehouse, manufacturing facility or distribution centre. This is all to say that …

04/06/25

Working at Height Legislation: Everything You Need to Know to Keep Your Warehouse Safe

Occupational health and safety have come a long way since the first piece of legislation was passed over 200 years ago. While fairly rudimentary in today’s standards and poorly enforced, it set into motion a culture of care and ethical responsibility that, over the course of centuries, morphed into the standards we’re more familiar with. …

07/05/25

10 of the Best Pallet Trucks for Handling Stock, However Niche

Thanks to a cocktail of sweeping global influences – the rise of automation, the growth of the ecommerce sector and progression of Industry 4.0 technologies – the material handling sector is experiencing something of a renaissance. In the UK, revenues from the manufacture of lifting and handling equipment is estimated to hit 5.5 billion USD …

02/04/25

Get a Grasp of these Commonplace Manual Handling Hazards & Which Control Measures to Implement

Did you know that manual handling accidents account for 17% of all workplace injuries? As if that’s not enough, 7.8 million working days are lost due to occupational musculoskeletal disorders, which are a common byproduct of unaddressed manual handling hazards. Given the prevalence of these issues, it’s important employers and site managers step up their …