Moving obese corpses now a major safety hazard for NHS staff as number of severely overweight Brits soars

MOVING obese corpses has go a information hazard for infirmary morgue staff, says the NHS.

Rising obesity rates mean workers look a greater hazard of putting their backs retired lifting and shifting heavier bodies.

Many morgues now person bigger fridges and wider doors, and indispensable support larger corpses successful a peculiar store country to minimise contact.

NHS guidance states “lifting and moving of bodies” is present a wellness and information contented owing to a emergence successful “people with excess weight”.

It says “appropriate refrigerated storage” should beryllium provided with bigger store rooms “to minimise un­necessary handling of the body”.

Workplace mishap lawyer Lisa Fairclough said ­manual handling accidents relationship for a 5th of each reported workplace incidents.

The NHS said: “It is important the close procedures are successful spot to negociate bodies with respect and successful a harmless mode for staff.

“That is wherefore the NHS has provided up-to-date guidance connected lifting and moving of bodies, and trusts are advised to see the astir due refrigerated retention that volition minimise unnecessary handling of the body.”

Thirty per cent of Brits are present severely overweight, treble the level for 1993.