This report presents the findings from two concurrent cross-sectional questionnaire surveys of care homes across Wales conducted by the Health & Safety Laboratory (HSL) on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The questionnaires were designed to benchmark the current status of manual handling safety management systems within the care homes sector. One surveyed site managers and supervisors and the second surveyed the workforce. They obtained data on attitudes towards, and perceptions of the status of manual handling risk management systems within the sector.