Goals

The overall goals of the campaign are

• Better compliance in the EU with EU Directive 90/269/EEC “Manual Handling of Loads” in order to reduce musculo-skeletal disorders,
  
• ­Improving the inspection and communication methods of the labour inspectorates by learning from existing methods,
  
• Greater harmony in the enforcement of the manual handling of loads throughout the EU.
  

EU experience indicates that inspectors find manual handling more difficult to address than most other topics.

Therefore the SLIC ‘Train-the trainers program’ is meant not only for this specific campaign, but for a wider NLI training approach on this topic.

Also the risk assessment guideline Manual Handling of Loads is applicable in all sectors. If we maintain a wider view we can potentially impact a larger population at risk and thus increase any multiplier effect from the pan European project.

It also enables greater flexibility in any member state where there may already have been improvements made in a specific area and effort needs to be applied elsewhere.