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5 Ways a Trailer Dolly Can Improve Your Trailer Yard

Trailer Yard Safety With the Trailer Dolly

Moving trailers around from one area to another in your trailer yard comes with certain risks and challenges. Without the right equipment, your trailer yard can become an unsafe place for employees. You might also face difficulties in terms of efficiency and costs. Using a motorized trailer dolly to move trailers from spot to spot offers the ideal solution. These trailer dollies can provide your trailer yard with the following advantages.

Safer Work Environment

Trailer dollies in trailer yards make it safer for workers to tow or move trailers around compared to yard trucks. These dollies usually have forward-facing operation, which reduces the need for operators to look behind them when they need to back into a spot. These dollies also make it easier to avoid running into obstacles in the trailer yard.

Better Efficiency

Having employees drive yard trucks around to move trailers means you have to make sure they have proper licensing. You might also have to keep track of their hours behind the wheel for safety purposes. Trailer dollies don’t require a commercial driver’s license, logged hours, or specialized training to operate. This can help improve efficiency in your trailer yard.

Lower Costs

Switching from a yard truck that runs on diesel to a battery-powered trailer dolly that can be recharged can help save your company money. You’ll also have reduced costs from not having to hire CDL drivers to operate yard trucks.

Improved Maneuvering

Trailer dollies provide much smoother maneuvering in trailer yards compared to yard trucks. Workers can easily steer and turn these dollies, even in tight or confined spaces. This helps reduce the risk of accidents, errors, and injuries.

Simple to Use

Electric trailer dollies are much easier to operate than yard trucks. With these dollies, you can have more workers available to move trailers around. This can lead to better efficiency in your trailer yard, since you don’t need specially trained staff with proper licensing.

If you’re looking for the right trailer dolly for your trailer yard, please contact DJ Products. Our company can help you choose the best solution for improving efficiency and safety in your trailer yard.

A Focus on Ergonomics Can Prevent Warehouse Injuries

Thinking Smarter About How We Travel and Transport Never Hurts to Think About.

Warehouse and fulfillment center workers perform a number of physically demanding and repetitive tasks on a daily basis, creating a high risk for musculoskeletal injuries. Our warehouse equipment is ergonomically designed to be safer and less stressful on muscles and joints.

Create a culture of safety awareness in your warehouse by training employees to incorporate these ergonomic principles in their everyday activities.

Placing and Picking Items

– Take a position squarely facing the item’s location to avoid twisting the spine.

– Keep movements between shoulder and knee height as much as possible.

– Don’t stack carts in such a way that the field of vision is obstructed.

Packing Shipments

– Maintain a neutral posture: straight neck and back, shoulders down, elbows at right angles, wrists straight.

– Organize products and packing materials in a way that eliminates excessive stretching, twisting or lifting.

– Minimize intensity of gripping, pinching and other forces required to complete tasks such as taping and filling packages.

– Use carts, roller tables and other conveyances to limit the need to manually carry items.

Receiving and Shipping

– Don’t overload pallets. Balance loads with larger, heavier items on the bottom and smaller, lighter items on the top.

– Use mechanical assistance such as our tugs, movers and pushers to transport heavy or bulky loads, especially ones that usually require two or more workers.

– Follow proper lifting techniques: stand as close as possible with feet shoulder-width apart, bend at the knees instead of the waist, lift from the legs. Reverse these steps when lowering items.

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Top Tips for Preventing Back Injuries in the Warehouse Workplace

Health and Safety is Key

Your back is meant to last a lifetime, but a workplace injury can result in a lifetime of chronic pain instead. Here’s a look at proper warehouse equipment and other ways to minimize the risk of back injuries in your warehouse.

Tips for Preventing Back Injuries in the Workplace

• Muscle tightness restricts flexibility, increasing the likelihood of tears and sprains. Take frequent breaks to stretch and move around.

• Poor posture puts undue strain on the spine. Make it a point to keep head, shoulders and pelvis in line, with feet about shoulder-width apart. Gently tighten abs and buttocks, but refrain from overall tension.

• Wear sturdy and supportive footwear. Appropriate work gear will protect your feet as well as your back. Place rubber mats at work stations and other areas where employees stand for long periods of time.

• When sitting, keep your back firmly against the chair’s backrest with feet flat on the ground and knees aligned with hips. Adjust the height of the chair as needed so you can comfortably rest your arms at elbow height. If you handle transportation in-house, these guidelines apply to truck drivers as well.

• Keep heavy loads on shelves and other elevated surfaces whenever possible to alleviate strain when lifting.

• Twisting, pushing and pulling are the main causes of musculoskeletal injuries. Use appropriate warehouse equipment when transporting product to loading docks and other areas.

Improve Workplace Safety with Electric Warehouse Equipment from DJ Products

With battery-powered warehouse tugs, pushers and movers such as our popular CartCaddyLite, a single employee of any size, age or sex can easily move heavy loads. Our warehouse equipment is also ergonomically designed to prevent repetitive motion injuries.

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