Manual Handling Risk Assessment Pack — task by task.
Four sheets that do one job properly: list the handling tasks, assess each one against Task, Individual, Load and Environment, then record the controls and review them. Small, sharp, and the thing most businesses are missing when they are asked.
Pairs with Manual Handling, whose practical is reviewed by a QQI Level 6 Instructor.
Training is not an assessment.
These are two different obligations and they get confused constantly. Manual handling is dealt with specifically in the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (General Application) Regulations 2007: where handling cannot reasonably be avoided, the risk has to be assessed and reduced. Training the person is not the same as assessing the task.
Start with the inventory, not the form
MH1 lists every handling task in the operation before anything is assessed — deliveries, stockpots, bin runs, cold-room stock, furniture. Most businesses assess two tasks and miss six, because nobody wrote the list down first.
TILE, one task per sheet
MH2 works through Task, Individual, Load and Environment for a single task, which is how the assessment is meant to be structured. One sheet per task, so the assessment stays specific instead of collapsing into a general statement.
Controls with a name and a date
MH3 turns findings into an action plan: what will change, who owns it, when it is due, and a review log. An assessment with no action plan is an observation.
It complements the course, it does not repeat it
The course teaches your people to lift; this assesses the job you are asking them to do. You need both, and an inspector will ask about both.
Sources ·
Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 ·
Health and Safety Authority
General guidance, not legal advice. Your own food safety management system, safety statement and the officer inspecting your premises are what govern your business.
What the sheets actually look like.
Real pages from the pack, not mock-ups. Every sheet is a fillable PDF with the limits and prompts printed on it.
MH1 — Manual Handling Task Inventory
MH2 — TILE Risk Assessment
MH3 — Controls Action Plan & Review Log
All 4 documents, by name.
No mystery bundle. This is the complete list of what downloads when you buy the pack.
Before you buy.
No. Training teaches a person to lift safely; this assesses the task you are asking them to do. The regulations expect both, and an inspector will ask about both. The Manual Handling course covers the training half, with a practical reviewed by a QQI Level 6 Instructor.
One per distinct task, which is why MH1 comes first. A small café usually lands on five or six; a hotel kitchen with deliveries, cellar work and function set-ups will have more.
The Risk Assessment Pack includes manual handling as one pre-filled assessment among fourteen documents. This pack goes further on that one hazard, with the inventory and a TILE sheet per task.
Someone who knows the work and has been trained to assess it. It does not have to be an external consultant, but it does have to be somebody competent to do it — and the assessment has to describe your workplace, not a generic one.
The rest of the range.
Each pack does one job. Most businesses end up with two or three.
Assess the task. Train the lift.
Fillable PDFs · download once · no subscription.
Training and records from the same place.