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Got to Move a Heavy Dumpster – Use Our Safe Lifting and Pushing Tips

Heavy Dumpster PushingIf you need your employees to move a dumpster, there’s always a risk of injury. Without a dumpster pusher, it’s important to understand how to safely maneuver the dumpster without causing any physical strains or injuries.

To help, we would like to share some safe lifting tips with you. Here are some guidelines in the event that you aren’t sure how to keep yourself or your employees protected during heavy moves.

DJ Products Offers These Safe Lifting Tips

Preventing injury is often easy once you know the proper techniques. If you don’t have a dumpster pusher in house, you should focus on these safe lifting tips:

  • Take a moment to think about the move before you start.
  • Try to keep the weight as close to your waist as possible.
  • Find a stable position to stand before attempting the lift.
  • Make sure you have a tight hold on the load.
  • Lift with your legs. Avoid lifting with your back.
  • Don’t twist your body when you lift.
  • Look ahead and keep moving smoothly.
  • Don’t lift more than you can handle.
  • Put the load down and then make any necessary adjustments.

The Benefits of a Dumpster Pusher

A dumpster pusher offers your business so many great benefits. It can significantly cut down on the manpower it takes to move a dumpster. Also, you may find that the number of injuries your business reports each year will show a marked decrease. For some employers, after reviewing their workers comp claims, they discovered that a high number of injuries were due to moving dumpsters.

We’d love to know how we can help you. Contact us!

Property Manager Entrepreneur Creates Noise Alert Application that Generates Millions

Innovations that Help Property Managers
Innovations that Help Property Managers

Like many great entrepreneurs, John Bialk started a company with an idea that solves a problem: tenants’ noise complaints to property managers.

Bialk lamented the feeling of “waiting for bad things to happen.” His idea was to create a device and an app to alert property management when noise gets out of hand — so management can proactively respond and situations and have data that tells the facts.

Money Magazine recently profiled Bialk and his new business, Quietyme. After partnering up with a computer programmer and quitting his day job in 2013, Bialk has turned his idea into a company worth millions.

Property managers (as well as those in hospitality and healthcare) are loving the features of Quietyme. Small devices collect data about noise, temperature, humidity, and light. When the software detects something that might indicate a problem, management gets an alert on the mobile app.

When a tenant starts partying loudly at 1 a.m., the Quietyme app knows it even before another tenant complaints. Broken air conditioner? The device will know that something is wrong.

The Power of a Simple Solution

Bialk’s story shows that great ideas can provide massive value to other businesses — especially in the form of solutions that make common problems easier to manage.

That’s also the idea behind our dumpster moving tugs. Rental properties, warehouses and other facilities often need to move heavy dumpsters across lots, up and down ramps, and through parking garages. Dumpster moving tugs help automate the process, reducing physical injuries to employees and making facilities management a cleaner, smoother process.

For more info on dumpster movers that all property managers need for smooth site management and other powered carts, visit DJProduct.com.

Improve Your Warehouse’s Efficiency with These Tips

Small changes in warehouse management can quickly add up to a major boost in productivity. Here are some crucial tips to improve warehouse efficiency day in and day out:

Update your Management Software

Nobody should be relying on pen and paper or decade-old inventory software. Even very small businesses can find affordable options for advanced software with features that streamline the efficiency of both the warehouse and your management tasks.

Count—and Recount—Everything

Someone should count and double-check every item and box, in both incoming and outgoing orders. Ideally, two employees should check each order. The moment of time costs very little compared to the labor and resources that go into correcting a mistake later.

Organize & Clean All Areas, Including Your Office

With a repeatable system for staying clean and organized, you will lose fewer items, misplace fewer order slips, and enjoy a healthier and more positive work environment. Seeing a clean manager’s office helps encourage this among the staff.

Encourage Employees with Experience to Help Others

You can build accountability and efficiency by instructing your experienced staff members to spend some time monitoring and helping their fellow employees. Senior workers can spot inefficiencies and can also report back to you on how your staff and system are really doing.

Use Motorized Carts Instead of Unnecessary Labor

The manual labor of pushing and pulling heavy equipment hurts your efficiency and causes a greater risk of lost time due to injuries. Look into ergonomic motorized carts to boost productivity on every task.

If your warehouse has carts, platform trucks, waste containers and other heavy equipment, check out our cart caddy solutions that will boost your efficiency.

MHEDA’s Trends for 2014 – Are You Ready?

The Material Handling Equipment Distributing Association has released its 2014 Critical Impact Factors.

Among MHEDA’s 13 factors are a few that tie into the way you satisfy customers and employees alike:

Critical Impact Factor: To build loyalty and trust, distributors must provide the customer with value-added services.

What you can do now: Talk to the best customers – both yours and those of your competitors. A casual lunch or a golf game can foster open dialog about what they find important. Learn what kind of services are important to them, whether it’s pre-sale consultation  or after-sale training on their motorized carts and powered movers.

Critical Impact Factor: Members need to develop a strategy to utilize, implement and measure the benefits of web technologies, mobile apps, online marketing and social media as business development tools.

What you can do now: Take your marketing online. Today’s inbound marketing harnesses the power of the Internet to help the best prospects find you. Content creation is the key. When you create and publish original, high-value blogs, videos, eBooks and other content, you build credibility and guide casual web visitors into qualified leads.

Critical Impact Factor: Retention of top performers is critical and steps must be in place to motivate and develop existing employees.

What you can do now: Work with your employees to develop career tracks and growth plans that take advantage of each person’s unique strengths. If you haven’t already got one, implement a recognition program. “Acknowledgment is essential,” notes Business Insider, “and even the briefest notice and attention makes a huge difference. It’s about remembering workers are humans, not machines.”

As always DJ Products is at the forefront of providing solutions for all your industrial equipment needs. As you plan ahead to grow your business for 2014 we invite you to check with the staff at DJ Products to see how our customized equipment moving solutions can improve productivity and lower staff injuries.