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1 online resource (272) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Note on terminology -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and overview -- 3. Manual handling: Changing times, changing law -- 4. Legal framework for manual handling across the United Kingdom -- 5. A-Z list -- A. Adult protection, see Safeguarding adults -- Agency workers, see Employees -- Anderson case, see Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 -- Assault and battery -- Assistive handling -- B. Balanced decision-making -- Banned lifts, see Controversial lifts -- Bariatric people -- Blaming employees for injury |
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Blanket policies about manual handling -- Brexit -- Burden of proof and evidence -- C. Capability -- Care Act 2014 -- Care agencies, see Health and care providers -- Care homes, see Health and care providers -- Care Quality Commission -- Carers -- Causation of injury -- Child protection, see Safeguarding children -- Children and Families Act 2014, see Schools -- Colclough v Staffordshire case, see Instructions and information -- Commissioning and contracting -- Common law -- Common sense in manual handling -- Commons v Queen's Medical Centre case, see Cumulative strain |
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Compensation for personal injury, see Damages -- Competency, see Capability -- Contracting for care, see Commissioning and contracting -- Contributory negligence, see Negligence -- Controversial lifts -- Cooperation and coordination in a shared workplace, see Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 -- Coronavirus -- Cost-effectiveness, see Resources -- COVID-19, see Coronavirus -- Creep factor -- Cumulative strain -- Custom and practice -- D. Damages -- Defective equipment -- Degrading treatment, see Human rights -- Deregulation Act 2015, see Self-employed people -- Dignity |
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Direct payments -- Disabled facilities grants, see Home adaptations -- Discrimination -- Documentation, see Recording -- Double-handed care -- E. East Sussex case, see Human rights -- East Sussex ombudsman case, see Maintenance of mobility and other functions -- Education, see Children and Families Act 2014 -- Education, health and care plans, see Children and Families Act 2014 -- Egan case, see Reasonable practicability -- Eggshell skull principle, see Causation of injury -- Emergency situations -- Employees -- Employers -- Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, see Regulatory reform |
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Equality Act 2010, see Discrimination -- Equipment -- European Convention on Human Rights, see Human rights -- European directive on manual handling, see Brexit -- Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 -- Everyday tasks -- Evidence, see Recording -- F. Factories Act 1961 -- Falling people -- Fettering of discretion, see Blanket policies about manual handling -- Foreseeability of risk -- Foster carers -- Fundamental standards -- G. Good practice and law -- Guidance -- H. Health and care providers -- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 -- Health and safety at work legislation |
| Summary |
This book lays out the current legal requirements of manual handling in a non-technical way and includes case studies illustrating the law applied in practice, across health, social care and educational settings. The main part of the book is an A-Z guide, providing quick access to legislation and common law rules applying to personal injury cases |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Lifting and carrying -- Safety regulations -- Great Britain
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Lifting and carrying -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain
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Lifting and carrying -- Law and legislation
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Lifting and carrying -- Safety regulations
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0857009907 |
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9780857009906 |
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