Day: March 3, 2017

Tips for Preventing Injuries in the Workplace – Look at the Trash Room First

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Trash Room Injuries

Do you associate workplace injuries with assembly lines and other complex equipment? You might be surprised to learn that many of them occur in the relatively quiet trash room.

According to data from the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index, these five injuries account for nearly 75 percent of the overall cost burden:

1. Overexertion

The top category includes injuries caused by pushing, pulling and other activities that cause undue stress on muscles and joints. Manually transporting dumpsters weighing hundreds or thousands of pounds can easily result in these types of injuries.

2. Falling

Employees are vulnerable to falling while moving dumpsters up and down inclines or across treacherous surfaces such as snow and ice.

3. Bodily Reaction

This category includes injuries such as getting fingers and hands caught in dumpster lids or stumbling and banging your head against the side.

4. Falling to a Lower Level

While technically this doesn’t usually apply to trash rooms, an employee can become seriously injured by a fall incurred by climbing into a dumpster.

5. Struck by Object

Unwieldy dumpsters can quickly get away from employees, striking them or causing them to be pinned against a wall or other obstacle.

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  • A single employee can transport dumpsters weighing up to 2,000 pounds.
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  • Our movers are ergonomically designed to prevent repetitive motion injuries.

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Tips for Improving Warehouse Productivity the Low Tech Way

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Technology has made its way into nearly every part of our personal and professional lives. In warehouse inventory management, solutions ranging from barcodes and scanners to industrial powered carts improve accuracy and efficiency.

This doesn’t mean that old school methods have no place in today’s warehouses. Here are some tried-and-true ideas to boost overall productivity.

Four Low-Tech Tips for High Productivity

  • Clean house. Daily operations cause disarray to every warehouse, no matter how organized it is to start. Walk the floor regularly to spot and correct any potential risk areas such as poor shelf placement of high-velocity items.
  • Implement cycle counts. Once-a-year inventories are a must, but they allow too much time for small problems to snowball into serious ones. Conducting cycle counts lets you correct discrepancies before they get out of hand.
  • Have a clearly defined receiving area. Receiving errors are like dominoes that trigger a ripple effect through the entire chain. Make sure your receiving team has plenty of space and all the necessary tools to work accurately.
  • Plan clean-up time. If your employees start the day in a messy workplace, their attitude and actions will quickly follow suit. Specify a cutoff time for processing orders and have employees use the rest of the day to clean up. With everything in place, they can start off strong each day.

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Workplace injuries are a major drain on productivity. Industrial powered carts such as our popular CartCaddy5WP are ergonomically designed to allow a single employee to safely move loads of up to 10,000 pounds. Visit our website for more information.