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and safety risk that the control measure may not effectively control
    * if a new hazard or risk is identified
    * if the results of consultation indicate that a review is necessary
    * if a health and safety representative requests a review.
Control measures may be reviewed using the same methods as the initial hazard identification step. Consult your workers involved in the manual task and their health and safety representatives and consider the following:
    * Are the control measures working effectively in both their design and operation, without creating new risks?
    * Are workers actively involved in the risk management process? Are they openly raising health and safety concerns and reporting problems promptly?
    * Have new work methods or new equipment reduced physical strain or difficulty?
    * Has instruction and training on hazardous manual tasks and the implemented control measures been successful?
    * Is the frequency and severity of MSDs reducing over time?
    * Is an alteration planned to any structure, plant or process that is likely to result in a worker being exposed to a hazardous manual task?
    * Has an incident occurred as a result of a worker being exposed to a hazardous manual task?
    * If new information becomes available, does it indicate current controls may no longer be the most effective?
If problems are found, go back through the risk management steps, review your information and make further decisions about risk control.

6. Role of designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers
The best time to eliminate or minimise the risk of MSDs is in the design and planning stage – when hazards and risks can be 'designed out' before they are introduced into a workplace.
Designers, manufacturers, importers and suppliers of plant and structures have duties under the WHS Act to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that these products are without risks to health and safety when used for a purpose for which they were designed or manufactured.

6.1 Designers

Regulation 61: Designers of plant or structures used for work must:
    * ensure the plant or structure is designed to eliminate the need to carry out a hazardous manual task in connection with the plant or structure
    * where this is not reasonably practicable, minimise the need to carry out a hazardous manual task in connection with the plant or structure so far as is reasonably practicable
    * give each person who is provided with the design for the purpose of giving effect to it adequate information about the features of the plant or structure that eliminate or minimise the need for any hazardous manual task to be carried out.
Ergonomic principles should be applied in the design stage. This means that a manual