WorkCover NSW is urging workers in one of the state’s highest risk industries to make safe manual handling a priority after more than 700 injuries over three years.

The wood products manufacturing industry includes businesses involved in the manufacture of wooden doors and windows, roof trusses and wall frames, kitchen cabinets and joineries. The industry has been identified by WorkCover as one of the state’s highest risk industries after 1,965 workers compensation claims in the three years to 2010 at a cost of $19.5 million to the NSW workers compensation scheme.

WorkCover has identified manual tasks in the workshop as one of the top safety issues businesses need to address after it accounted for more than a third of all injuries.

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