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3 Record current risk controls

The principal and/or their delegate must ensure that the level of risk associated with hazardous manual handling tasks is eliminated or reduced so far as is reasonably practicable, by considering and addressing the factors listed under section 2, the ‘Risk assessment process’ in this Guidance.

The principal and/or their delegate must ensure that current risk controls are recorded in the OHS Risk Register.External Link Current risk controls must also be recorded in the Risk Assessment TemplateExternal Link or equivalent, where a detailed task based risk assessment was performed.

Refer to the Manual Handling GuideExternal Link for sample risk controls.

Chapter 3 of the Manual Handling Procedure on recording risk associated with manual handling in schools

Reviewed 26 June 2020

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