Manual handling issues have been the subject of many discussions and regulations. Manual handling while unloading trucks and vans poses the risk of offend that contributes to on peak of 0.5 million cases of musculoskeletal insult reported in the USA each year. Such injuries generally appear in the shoulders, lower gain going on and the arms, and gain not abandoned to millions of deed-suit-hours wandering annually, but in addition to to recompense claims made down companies and their insurers. The cost to employers is both monetary, bearing in mind than increased insurance premiums, and in the form of man hours loose upon the job. In most cases, the latter is more costly to a employer than the heritage in employee insurance costs. Manual Handling Risk Assessments Manual handling issues can be controlled by the use of functional risk assessments and audits and by the adoption of more vigorous materials handling practices. Although the maximum load that should be lifted manually in t...