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PErforM Risk Assessment Tool

by Rick Fox, from the Community

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This PErforM Risk Assessment Tool helps teams assess musculoskeletal disorder risks for manual tasks. Score exertion, awkward posture, vibration, duration, and repetition for each relevant body part, then capture findings to prioritize controls. Use it to standardize workplace ergonomic assessments, document hazards, and plan improvements across shifts and locations. Ideal for manufacturing and other manual handling environments, it supports proactive injury prevention and continuous safety improvement in SafetyCulture.

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Manual Handling Risk Assessment Guide
This manual handling risk assessment guide helps teams identify and control hazards across high-risk tasks common in logistics and field operations. It covers repetitive or sustained postures and movements, long-duration activities, and contributing factors such as heavy lifting, pushing and pulling, awkward grips, vibration from tools, prolonged driving, and extreme temperatures. Use it to review tasks step by step, flag high-force or awkward posture requirements, and implement controls, team lifts, appropriate equipment, and environmental adjustments to reduce musculoskeletal injury risk.
by Steve Hemsley, from the Community
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Manual Handling Risk Assessment Form
This manual handling risk assessment form helps teams identify and manage risks that lead to musculoskeletal injuries. It includes analysis of workplace injury records, a detailed risk identification checklist for repetitive or sustained postures and movements, high-force tasks, and environmental factors such as vibration, heat, or cold. It also covers handling live animals or people and unstable or awkward loads. Use the risk matrix to rate current and residual risk, capture corrective actions, and standardize safe manual handling practices.
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ART Tool Manual Handling Repetitive Task Assessment
Use the ART Tool checklist to evaluate repetitive manual handling tasks and identify musculoskeletal risk. Record arm movement frequency, level of force, and posture of head, back, arms and wrists. Capture work pace, continuous work duration and contributing factors such as gloves, vibration, cold, lighting, tool use and precision demands. Calculate a Duration Multiplier and Task Score to produce an Exposure Score and a Low, Medium or High risk level. Add photos, confirm normal duties, and capture assessor and worker details with signatures and comments.
by Eddie Harris, from the Community
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OSHA Ergonomic Assessment Checklist
This OSHA ergonomic assessment checklist helps teams identify and control risk factors that contribute to cumulative trauma disorders and musculoskeletal injuries. Assess repetitive motions, awkward postures, forceful exertions, lifting, workstation height, and tool vibration or impact. Document observations, worker symptoms, and complaints, then generate an overall risk rating with recommended corrective actions. Use SafetyCulture to standardize assessments across sites, capture evidence, and track follow-ups to improve workplace safety and performance.
by Kelly Wood, from the Community
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Manual Handling Risk Assessment Guide

This manual handling risk assessment guide helps teams identify and control hazards across high-risk tasks common in logistics and field operations. It covers repetitive or sustained postures and movements, long-duration activities, and contributing factors such as heavy lifting, pushing and pulling, awkward grips, vibration from tools, prolonged driving, and extreme temperatures. Use it to review tasks step by step, flag high-force or awkward posture requirements, and implement controls, team lifts, appropriate equipment, and environmental adjustments to reduce musculoskeletal injury risk.

by Steve Hemsley, from the Community

20+

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Manual Handling Risk Assessment Form

This manual handling risk assessment form helps teams identify and manage risks that lead to musculoskeletal injuries. It includes analysis of workplace injury records, a detailed risk identification checklist for repetitive or sustained postures and movements, high-force tasks, and environmental factors such as vibration, heat, or cold. It also covers handling live animals or people and unstable or awkward loads. Use the risk matrix to rate current and residual risk, capture corrective actions, and standardize safe manual handling practices.

by Linda Toseland, from the Community

20+

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ART Tool Manual Handling Repetitive Task Assessment

Use the ART Tool checklist to evaluate repetitive manual handling tasks and identify musculoskeletal risk. Record arm movement frequency, level of force, and posture of head, back, arms and wrists. Capture work pace, continuous work duration and contributing factors such as gloves, vibration, cold, lighting, tool use and precision demands. Calculate a Duration Multiplier and Task Score to produce an Exposure Score and a Low, Medium or High risk level. Add photos, confirm normal duties, and capture assessor and worker details with signatures and comments.

by Eddie Harris, from the Community

10+

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OSHA Ergonomic Assessment Checklist

This OSHA ergonomic assessment checklist helps teams identify and control risk factors that contribute to cumulative trauma disorders and musculoskeletal injuries. Assess repetitive motions, awkward postures, forceful exertions, lifting, workstation height, and tool vibration or impact. Document observations, worker symptoms, and complaints, then generate an overall risk rating with recommended corrective actions. Use SafetyCulture to standardize assessments across sites, capture evidence, and track follow-ups to improve workplace safety and performance.

by Kelly Wood, from the Community

10+

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PErforM Risk Assessment Tool

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