Abstract
The state of Victoria, Australia proclaimed its first Regulations and Code of Practice to address musculo-skeletal disorders (MSD) in 1988. After 10 years of implementation across industry, it has been replaced by new, revised Regulations and Code of Practice on 1st July 1999. This paper will review evaluation studies conducted as part of the evaluation of the original Australian Regulations on Manual Handling as well as the evaluation of the Draft 1999 Regulations.
These studies indicated that industry was able to embrace the performance based approach to legislation relating to manual handling injuries. However, there was a distinct difference in the approach between small and large employers.
The second study identified that the useability of the new Regulations and Code of Practice was influenced by the length, complexity of technical language and practical information relating to compliance provided in the Regulation and Code of Practice.
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