Most people walk into a supermarket expecting the basics — clean floors, clear aisles and a safe place to shop. You don’t think about safety procedures or inspection routines until something goes wrong. If you’ve already read our breakdown of the most common causes of...
Supermarkets look organised on the surface — bright aisles, polished floors, everything stacked neatly. But anyone who’s ever slipped in one knows how quickly things can go wrong. Most accidents don’t happen because someone wasn’t paying attention. They happen because something in the store environment...
Warehouses and logistics sites are some of the busiest, most physically demanding workplaces in the UK. The pace is fast, the pressure is constant, and the work rarely slows down enough for staff to step back and think about whether a task is actually safe....
The moments after a manual handling accident are often confusing. Most people don’t expect to get injured doing a task they’ve done hundreds of times before, so the first reaction is usually to brush it off, finish the shift, or hope the pain settles. We...
Manual handling is one of those areas where myths spread quickly. Most workers pick up bits of advice from colleagues, old training sessions, or habits that have been passed down over the years. Some of it is harmless. Some of it is flat‑out wrong. And...
Healthcare is one of the sectors where we see the highest number of manual handling injuries. Nurses, carers, porters, and support staff deal with physical demands that most other industries never come close to. The work is unpredictable, often rushed, and rarely carried out in...
When someone is injured while lifting, carrying, pushing, or moving something at work, the first question they usually ask is whether they have a valid claim. It’s a fair question, and one we hear often at Faircloughs. Most people don’t want to “blame” their employer...
When we look back at the manual handling cases we’ve handled at Faircloughs, one theme appears again and again: the workplace itself made the task unsafe long before the injury happened. People often assume manual handling injuries are caused by “lifting wrong” or “not being...
When we speak to workers after a manual handling accident, one of the first questions we ask is whether they received any training. The answers vary, but the pattern is familiar: a quick video shown years ago, a brief demonstration during induction, or a session...
Most workplaces will tell you they carry out manual handling risk assessments. On paper, that might even be true. But when we speak to people after an accident, a different picture usually emerges. Workers often say they’ve never seen a risk assessment for the job...