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OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY (MANUAL HANDLING) REGULATIONS (NO. 32 OF 1997) - REG 4

4. The object of these Regulations is to ensure that employers and persons in control take all reasonably practicable steps that are available to them to ensure—

        (a)     that plant, equipment and containers that may be manually handled are safe when manually handled;

        (b)     that work practices involving manual handling are designed to be safe; and

        (c)     that the working environment is designed to be consistent with safe manual handling activities.

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