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Streamlining Warehouse Operations with the Waste Caddy Dumpster Mover

Improve Safety with a Motorized Dumpster Mover

In today’s fast-paced warehouse environments, streamlining operations and enhancing efficiency are top priorities for managers and operators alike. An integral part of achieving these objectives comes down to how effectively materials and waste are managed. This is where the Waste Caddy Dumpster Mover from DJ Products Inc. enters the picture, revolutionizing the transportation and maneuvering of heavy dumpsters within warehouse settings.

The Waste Caddy boasts a robust, yet lightweight construction, making it not only durable but also easily maneuverable. This design excellence, coupled with customizable hitch options, ensures that our Dumpster Mover can readily adapt to various dumpster sizes and styles. The heart of the Caddy lies in its powerful electric motor, which facilitates the effortless pushing and pulling of even the heaviest loads, while its long-lasting battery life guarantees extended use between charges. These features collectively enhance operational efficiency by making waste management tasks faster, more manageable, and less labor-intensive.

Improved Workplace Safety and Efficiency

Safety in the workplace is a paramount concern, and manual movement of heavy dumpsters has traditionally posed a significant risk of injury. The Waste Caddy drastically reduces this risk by eliminating the need for physical exertion in transporting dumpsters. User-friendly controls ensure precise operation, further contributing to a safer working environment. Alongside safety, the ease of use and compact design of the Waste Caddy mean that any warehouse staff can operate it with minimal training, and it can be easily stored away when not in use, saving valuable space.

From an operational standpoint, the benefits of incorporating the Waste Caddy into warehouse workflows are profound. By streamlining the task of moving dumpsters, warehouses can realize significant time savings and productivity gains. The flexibility offered by the customizable hitch options and the availability of optional accessories, such as a tow bar, means the Waste Caddy can be tailored to meet the specific needs and challenges of any warehouse operation.

Motorized Dumpster Movers in Operation

In real-world applications, warehouse managers and operators have reported that the Dumpster Mover has become an indispensable tool in their operations arsenal. Whether it’s moving waste to consolidation points or relocating materials within the facility, the Dumpster Caddy ensures these tasks are accomplished with unmatched efficiency and safety.

The Waste Caddy Dumpster Mover represents a game-changing solution for modern warehouse operations. By enhancing safety, boosting productivity, and offering unmatched versatility, it exemplifies how innovative solutions can meet the complex demands of today’s warehousing challenges. Discover the difference the right tools can make in your operations. Explore how the Waste Caddy can transform your waste management and material handling processes today. Improve your operations waste removal efficiency and safety today by outfitting your team with a motorized dumpster mover today.

Introducing the WasteCaddy Trash Hauler

How many injuries do your employees have each year? Are any of those injuries related to moving heavy dumpsters on the job? If they are, then you need a solution. Moving dumpsters manually is hard work, and it puts employees and their health at risk. A dumpster puller or a great product like our WasteCaddy Trash Hauler can keep them safe. It also offers you plenty of other benefits.

Saving Time and Man Power

How would you use an extra employee? What would your employees be able to accomplish at work if they had more time? A dumpster puller could give you and your workers back some valuable time.

One customer stated that having the right equipment is, “…like having another employee on staff.” She went on to say that now, instead of needing two people to spend eight hours a week on the trash, it only takes one.

Preventing Injuries on the Job

Many on-the-job injuries are related to moving heavy dumpsters. This can get expensive for employers, plus, they also lose valuable members of their teams. Having the right equipment, such as using a WasteCaddy Trash Hauler, can prevent those injuries from occurring. This keeps businesses much more productive, and reduces costs in many areas.

Saving Money

When you save time and prevent injuries, you’re also saving money. In today’s world, that’s a big deal. Employers can avoid shelling out thousands of dollars every year because of lack of personnel and workers comp claims.

Do you have questions about the dumpster puller or the WasteCaddy Trash Hauler? We’d love to hear them and get you answers. Contact us!

What’s Safe to Throw Away in Your Dumpster?

The WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover Is Your Solution for Tight Trash Spaces.

Dumpsters are almost literally a “catch-all” solution to waste. However, there are certain items—chemical waste, liquid propane, and those darn CFL bulbs—that do not belong. Thankfully, most other garbage can go into a dumpster safely and legally.

Trash rooms are safer when everyone knows where different items need to go. For the best dumpster safety, workers should use our WasteCaddy dumpster mover to prevent and alleviate back and arm injuries.

Good to Go: Items You CAN Put in Dumpsters

Here’s a list of questionable items that are allowed; virtually all trash collection agencies let you put these in dumpsters:

• Appliances that do not contain refrigerant

• Aerosol cans, if empty

• Furniture, except for upholstered items in some locations

• Yard waste, except for large volumes of dirt in some locations

• Construction and demolition waste, with weight or volume restrictions

• Electronics, in small quantities if local law allows

How to Safely Handle Dumpster Waste

To prevent injuries, trash fires, and costly fines for improper disposal, try these solutions:

• Provide collection boxes for paint cans, fluorescent lights, rechargeable batteries, etc., so people are not tempted to hide these in the trash

• Post signs for workers to double-check allowed and not-allowed items

• Empty dumpsters frequently to prevent overflow and items left on the ground

• Use motorized tools like the WasteCaddy dumpster mover to haul trash containers with lower risk of injury

These simple but powerful steps can greatly improve dumpster safety. Get the right equipment for moving dumpsters safely to make the job even safer and reduce worker injuries. Visit DJ Products to learn more about the WasteCaddy dumpster mover and other waste container movers.

The Right Tool for the Right Job – the WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover

This is the Tool You’ve Been Needing at your Job.

You may already know that workers in the waste management sector have significantly higher incidents of accidents and injuries than people working in other fields. People working for your company may be exposed to many of the same risks associated with waste management, even though it’s not their primary responsibility.

In fact, manually moving heavy dumpsters full of trash is a time-consuming process that takes your employees away from other duties. Do your part to keep them safe and working efficiently by providing them with the best tool for the job.

How injuries often occur

Trash dumpsters are designed to hold large amounts of practically any type of material that gets thrown in. To hold up to the demands, dumpsters are heavy and bulky, and when filled with trash, a dumpster can weigh up to 2,500 pounds. Yet many companies still have their employees manually moving dumpsters across wet floors, through narrow areas, on loading ramps, across uneven pavement, and in all types of weather.

WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover

A motorized dumpster mover is like adding another employee to help your team members move heavy loads but at a fraction of the costs of hiring someone new. In addition to preventing workers comp claims due to back injuries, falls, and muscle strains, you can reduce the likelihood of property damage. If your employees must manually move a dumpster across busy parking lots, there’s always the possibility the dumpster could get away from them and strike a person or vehicle.

Contact DJ Products to speak with one of our sales engineers about which motorized dumpster mover is right for your business.

The Trouble with Trash!

On Top of Being a Hygiene Issue, Overflowing Trash Can Cause Environmental Repercussions.

If your trash bill was charged by the pound, would you throw away less? Many experts in the field of waste management and waste reduction believe that Americans aren’t very concerned about trash because we typically pay flat fees for trash collection. That, and the fact that few of us encounter landfills in our day-to-day lives. Out of sight, out of mind.

We’ve all heard about the dangers of pollution and hazardous waste going to landfills. Yet it feels like a distant problem.

Proper waste management plays a role in avoiding some of the biggest trash problems facing people and the planet:

• In some cases, landfills leach toxic chemicals into the soil, which ends up polluting our water supply.

• Clogged garbage drains cause disastrous floods.

• Toxic fumes from trash can even pollute the air.

• Countries without modern waste control have higher rates of diseases and illnesses, such as from drinking polluted water or breathing in smoke from burning trash.

• Many developed countries ship toxic waste to foreign countries where it gets disposed of improperly.

• The U.S. spends $200 billion a year related to trash.

Life necessitates trash, but the U.S. waste output far exceeds other developed countries. We all might consider ways to reduce and reuse, and be aware of where our garbage winds up.

At DJ Products, we make the WasteCaddy dumpster mover to make it easier for businesses to handle waste effectively.

Do your employees have to manually push dumpsters around the property or out to a curb for pickup? If so, a dumpster mover makes the process easier, safer, and more efficient. Contact DJ Products for a free demo!

Cut the Risk and Improve Safety When It Comes to Your Trash Room

Save Money and Make Your Workers Happy By Making Their Job Easier on Them and Your Insurance Cheaper.

Just as you can lower your car insurance by driving a safer car and avoiding accidents, you can lower your workers comp premiums with tools and strategies to improve dumpster safety. Besides the nightmare scenario of a dumpster tipping over and injuring an employee, your team faces an ongoing risk of repetitive stress and muscle injuries related to moving dumpsters.

How a Dumpster Pusher Can Help

When your employees move a dumpster or waste container, are they using manual force to steer and push it? Even on wheels, it takes a physical exertion that exceeds what the human body can comfortably perform. Both instantaneous injuries and long-term, built-up musculoskeletal disorders can put your worker on paid leave and increase workers comp insurance costs.

An automated dumpster pusher is the best way to improve trash room safety:

• Lower your Experience Modification Rating (EMR or E-Mod)

• Reduce workers compensation insurance premiums

• Keep your employees healthy and avoid costly time off

• Avoid high employee turnover and the associated loss of productivity

• Double the efficiency of trash room duties

• Manage the trash room in less time and/or with fewer employees

• Improve cleanliness and customer satisfaction at multi-family properties, retail, hospitality, etc.

The #1 Solution for the Biggest Injury Risk

Any business with a trash room or the need to move dumpsters can benefit from using a motorized dumpster pusher. In particular, rental properties benefit from using the WasteCaddy because trash-related injuries are the #1 risk for worker injury.

Tackle the trash room, and you can tackle your workers comp premiums. Contact DJ Products for a quote or demo of our WasteCaddy dumpster pusher.

Winn Companies Recognizes the WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover as a Best Practice to Reduce Injuries.

June 1, 2017 – Minneapolis, MN – WinnCompanies, the nation’s fifth largest multi-family property management company, announced today that they have successfully completed field testing for the WasteCaddy Dumpster mover, and that the company considers the use of WasteCaddy to be best practice for safety.

“The WasteCaddy has proven to be a valuable tool in reducing the risk of injury for our maintenance employees.” said John Tarrant, Vice President of Procurement & Sustainability at WinnCompanies. “The feedback we have received from the properties using the WasteCaddy to move trash dumpsters has been overwhelmingly positive.”

WinnCompanies have a strong commitment to employee safety, and the battery-powered WasteCaddy will become part of WinnCompanies industry-recognized “WinnSafe” program.

“We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with WinnCompanies.” said Jeff Berg, President of DJ Products, manufacturer of the WasteCaddy. “The trash room is the most dangerous area in a multi-family property, and this product continues to prove itself as a best practice for eliminating injuries in the trash room.” Jeff went on to say that in order to reduce risk, a number of leading property management companies have modified their trash room policy to state that at least two employees are required to move dumpsters, empty or full. “The challenge here is that while requiring two employees is certain to reduce injuries, it has a negative impact on maintenance staff efficiency. The WasteCaddy allows one employee or any age, size or gender to efficiently move dumpsters by themselves. It is a huge boost to efficiency.”

DJ Products will be exhibiting at the National Apartment Association Show in Atlanta in June 21 to 24.

About WinnCompanies WinnCompanies is an award-winning national property development and management company dedicated to the highest standards of excellence. WinnCompanies acquires, develops and manages affordable, senior, mixed-income, market-rate, military and commercial properties through its three divisions: WinnDevelopment, WinnResidential and WinnMilitary. Founded in 1971 and now operating in 22 states and the District of Columbia, WinnCompanies is the fifth largest multi-family housing manager, the largest manager of affordable housing, and the second largest manager military housing in the United States.

About DJ Products

DJ Products markets and manufactures battery powered tugs and pushers that move heavy loads on wheels. For more information about the WasteCaddy dumpster mover or any of DJ Products other equipment, visit them at www.djproducts.com or call 1-800-686-2651.

Top Reasons Why You Need a Dumpster Mover

Save Money and Treat Safety First.

Do you think a dumpster mover is an unnecessary expense? Maybe you believe your employees can handle the job just fine. Here are three big reasons why you need a dumpster mover for your workplace today.

1. Safety

Are you aware that the trash room is the top area for injuries in a multi-family property? When employees manually move heavy dumpsters through tight quarters and across rough surfaces, they put themselves, and by extension you as their employer, at risk.

2. Efficiency

One of our satisfied clients expressed it best when she said that a dumpster mover from DJ Products is “like having another employee on staff.” It lets a single employee of any age, size and gender move a heavy dumpster with ease, freeing up the second employee for other tasks.

Battery-powered dumpster movers reduce another source of inefficiency. When employees are injured, they have to be replaced with someone who usually has less experience, costing you time and money.

3. Risk

The average trash room injury claim through workers compensation is $40,000. If that’s not enough to frighten you, the change in your Experience Modification Rate (E-MOD) can mean an increase to your insurance premium of approximately $120,000 over three years.

Save Money and Time with Dumpster Movers from DJ Products

Why continue rolling the dice with workplace safety? Our popular WasteCaddy dumpster mover can pull up to 5,000 pounds up and down inclines and across ice and snow.

Visit our website today and use the handy online chat feature to learn more about our full line of motorized dumpster movers from our knowledgeable sales engineers.

Dumpster Safety – Tips Your Staff Should Know

Safety Is Key.

Do you think the trash room is a relatively low-risk area? Over a five-year period, one school district in Washington state reported a loss of more than 2,000 work days to dumpster- and recycling-related injuries at a cost of $300,000.

Fortunately, there are some common-sense steps you can take to reduce the risk of costly and painful injuries incurred in the trash room.

Dumpster and Compactor Safety Tips

No one should ever enter a dumpster or compactor. Materials should be broken down before going in a dumpster, and a long stick should be used to clear congestion in a compactor.
Areas immediately surrounding dumpsters and compactors should be clutter-free.
The compactor door should be securely closed before operating and should remain closed until the machine is turned off.
Hazardous waste should never go into a dumpster or compactor. Contact your local environmental agency for instructions on appropriate disposal methods.
Compactors should be serviced only by authorized personnel after completing lockout-tagout procedures.
Use caution opening and closing dumpster lids to avoid pinching fingers and hands.
Employees should inform their supervisor immediately if they see evidence of animals or other pests around the dumpster. Under no circumstances should they attempt to handle the problem themselves.
In case of a dumpster fire, call 911.

Promote Trash Room Safety with the WasteCaddy Dumpster Mover

Pushing and pulling heavy dumpsters from the trash room to the pick-up spot can result in serious injuries that are hard to heal. Contact us to learn why our WasteCaddy dumpster mover from DJ Products is an efficient and cost-effective way to improve workplace safety.

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