Use the New Zealand risk assessment of pushing and pulling (NZRAPP) to help 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.

Originally developed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in the United Kingdom, WorkSafe New Zealand has adapted the tool for use in Aotearoa New Zealand. To reflect these changes and to differentiate from the original HSE version, we have called our document The New Zealand risk assessment of pushing and pulling (NZRAPP). The risk factor categories, descriptions, and scoring system remain largely unchanged from the original tool.

The NZRAPP is currently only available in PDF format.

Alternatively, you could use the HSE’s online UK RAPP tool(external link)

Development of the NZRAPP

For more information on how the manual handling screening tools were developed, read Development of the New Zealand risk assessment of pushing and pulling (NZRAPP)