If repetative trowelling without adequate breaks is casusing what is classed as an industrial injury then why on earth are companies not addressing the problem. Risk assesments should pick this up. Or is it as I suspect the staff turn over is such that this type of injury which develops over time is mainly aquired by digging staff who are not with one company long enough to blame any particular company for their injury.
If you were assesing the risk properly you would identify this as a major hazard ie troweling+long-hours+few breaks= Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. This would be a high risk and far more incapacitating than knocking your knuckles on a bit of gravel or the occasional tripping up.
Incapacity caused by these manual handling injuries is severe and likely ( in the long term) and as such should be on your risk assesment.
For those of you who have been with one company for some time and have developed this injury what are the companies you work for doing about it? Did they tell you you were at risk?
If you were assesing the risk properly you would identify this as a major hazard ie troweling+long-hours+few breaks= Carpel Tunnel Syndrome. This would be a high risk and far more incapacitating than knocking your knuckles on a bit of gravel or the occasional tripping up.
Incapacity caused by these manual handling injuries is severe and likely ( in the long term) and as such should be on your risk assesment.
For those of you who have been with one company for some time and have developed this injury what are the companies you work for doing about it? Did they tell you you were at risk?