# Council Directive of 29 May 1990 on the minimum health and safety requirements for the manual handling of loads where there is a risk particularly of back injury to workers (fourth individual Directive within the meaning of Article 16 (1) of Directive 89/391/EEC) (90/269/EEC), Article 2: Definition

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Directives, ‘manual handling of loads’ means any transporting or supporting of a load, by one or more workers, including lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving of a load, which, by reason of its characteristics or of unfavourable ergonomic conditions, involves a risk particularly of back injury to workers.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1990/269/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1990-269/article-2
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