Day: June 27, 2016

The Condo Owners Guide to Dumpster Safety

A Guide for Dumpster Safety
A Guide for Dumpster Safety

Shards of glass, broken furniture, heavy and awkward items — taking out the trash represents an enormous liability for multi-tenant properties. As a condo owner, you and the condo staff face the risk of injury both from accidents and the physical strain of handling waste and moving heavy dumpsters around the property.

Condo owners should set aside time to go over safety practices with employees. The Work Safe Center offers this help checklist for dumpster safety that you can review with your workers.

Avoiding Accidents and Hazardous Materials

Employees should recognize that dumpsters may contain dangerous items such as bent metal, broken glass or even medical waste.

Tips for safe waste collection include:

  • Avoid back and shoulder strain; do not throw objects or handle heavy items with only one hand.
  • Use safety gloves when filling or emptying dumpsters.
  • Break down dangerous items into manageable parts.
  • Place warning signs about hazardous waste that should not go in dumpsters.

Dumpster Moving Tools for Safe & Easy Waste Handling

Tools are available to help with the weight and strain of filling dumpsters and carting them around the property. Motorized dumpster movers help prevent injury when moving dumpsters up and down inclines, across rough asphalt, or through inclement weather.

Even in normal use on flat ground, a dumpster mover helps by reducing the strain on the back, legs, and shoulders.

In addition to dumpster moving tools, containers can be made safe and ergonomic with easy-grip handles and tools to help lift lids and deposit heavy items.

Property managers can find out more about dumpster movers and waste bin pullers at DJProducts.com.

 

Shoulder-Mounted Jammers Aim to Take Down Drones

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Shoulder Mounted Drone Jammer

In the era of drones, new technology has begun proliferating to effectively shut down unwanted drones. The latest is something like a ray gun — a shoulder-mounted “rifle” that blasts radio waves of interference.

Radio-Powered Interference to Stop Drones

The DroneDefender was recently unveiled by an Ohio company called Battelle. The device operates on GPS and ISM radio bands and features a range of up to 400 meters. Specs remain somewhat secretive. What’s clear is that the DroneDefender has power over most commercially available consumer drone products.

When a drone flies over private property (or perhaps over restricted military areas), a jammer like the DroneDefender can interfere with the radio signals to force the drone into a hovering position. The operator then must land the device or return it home.

This technology should prove beneficial to police and military, as well as civilians wishing to protect private property from trespassing drones operated by other civilians.

DOD Contractor Heavy Equipment for Drones

Whether drone jammers should be available to the general public remains up for debate. For now, the technology seems to be a stopgap solution for unregulated drone flying by civilians. In the world of military and DOD contractor heavy equipment, jamming technology like the DroneDefender should not pose an issue.

For more information about DOD contractor heavy equipment, you can visit DJ Products to find out about electric platform carts, parts caddies, and motorized equipment movers. This includes tool and equipment solutions as well as aircraft and vehicle pullers with GSA authorization for DOD contractors.

 

Department of Justice Wants to Preserve Competition Between Contractors

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Preserving Competition

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are urging defense contractors to keep producing arms. Weapons and ammunition production are essential to keeping the peace for both law enforcement and the military.

Mergers

There have been several mergers between companies that supply weapons in the past year, which may be good for keeping prices competitive and products readily available. But mergers can also mean a slowing of development for newer and better weapons, and both the DOJ and the FTC want to make sure this type of development does not stop. This is why they have partnered to keep both development and production going, making sure there is no lull.

DOD Contractor Equipment

Weapons and ammunition demand signals will continue to drive the procurement of DOD contractor equipment. Heavy loads will need to be moved via carts, trailers, rail cars, etc., and shuttled from one place to another.

Wagons, waste and even such specialized munitions like bombs must be moved around, either within the factories themselves or out to the loading dock. Many of these require specialized moving machines, and all of them are available at DJ Products, who have industrial solutions for every market sector.

For more information on warehouse equipment suitable for any job, contact DJ Products, makers of trailer movers, dumpster movers and even aircraft movers. We have the mobile solution for your DOD warehouse floor management from munitions to waste removal.