The risk assessment of pushing and pulling (RAPP) tool will help you to identify high-risk pushing and pulling tasks.

It will help you assess the most common risk factors for:

  • moving loads on wheels, such as hand trolleys, pump trucks, carts, wheelbarrows, or
  • moving loads without wheels, such as when objects are dragged/slid, rolled, or involve a combination of pivoting and rolling known as churning.

We are developing a New Zealand version of the RAPP tool. In the meantime, if you need to assess pushing and pulling tasks use these from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE):

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