May 30, 2023
Three of The Most Common Warehouse Injuries
Common Workplace Injuries Based on statistics, industry experts estimate that five percent of warehouse workers…
October 4, 2022
Common Warehouse Workplace Injuries and Risks
Warehouse Risk Reduction Thanks to the boom in e-commerce sales, warehouse employment in the United…
September 24, 2017
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…
March 20, 2017
Can You Avoid Workplace Injuries? What You Need to Know.
Avoid Workplace Injury Perfection is an admirable goal but an unattainable standard. While you can't…
December 2, 2016
Protect Your Hospital Property with These Slip and Fall Tips
Protect Your Hospital Property with These Slip and Fall Tips Safety is always in season,…
October 12, 2016
Tips to Preventing Back Injuries in Your Warehouse
Preventing Back Injuries According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, back injuries account for almost…
June 14, 2016
The most Common Accidents are often the most Avoidable
When a warehouse or material handling accident is mentioned it often conjures up images of…
June 14, 2016
Pushmi-Pullyu Mentality Increases Workplace Injury
Remember the Pushmi-pullyu (push-me-pull-you) from Hugh Lofting's Dr. Dolittle stories for children? It was an…
June 14, 2016
Ergonomics: Just What the Doctor Ordered
Pushing, pulling, lifting and carrying tasks place a greater strain on the human body's soft…
June 14, 2016
Obama’s Mandate to Transform America
"The deepening recession creates the opportunity for federal intervention and government experimentation on a scale…
May 27, 2016
2010 Applied Ergonomics Conference Slated for March
Scheduled for March 22-25, the 2010 Applied Ergonomics Conference (AEC) to be held in San…
May 26, 2016
Florida Conference to Focus on Ergonomics
The Central Florida Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) will host a…
May 26, 2016
Two Factors Have Greatest Impact on Ergonomic Risk
Frequency and duration are the two factors that have the greatest impact on ergonomic risk.…
May 26, 2016
What’s Stress Got to Do with It?
When we think about work stress we tend to focus on its impact on our…
May 26, 2016
Reducing Pain of Worker’s Comp
"Ergonomics and Reducing the Pain in Worker's Comp" is the topic of a workshop scheduled…
September 14, 2015
Get Powered Carts for Aging Healthcare Workers
As workers get older, the wear and tear of age, combined with a lifetime of…
September 14, 2015
Election Ushers in Era of ‘Ergobamanomics’
In the wake of Barack Obama's election, U.S. industry should brace itself for a re-emphasis…
September 14, 2015
Anatomy of Push-Pull Tasks: Placing the Body at Risk
Pushing and pulling tasks are daily life occurrences, particularly, in the workplace. Because of the…
September 14, 2015
Risk Factors Linked to Pulling Tasks
Injuries from pushing and, particularly, pulling tasks cost U.S. businesses tens of billions of dollars…
September 14, 2015
Ignoring Ergonomics Exacts High Financial Toll
In our last post, we noted that Michigan has proposed regulations that would mandate ergonomic…
September 14, 2015
Material Handling Industry Moving to Clean, Green Electric Carts
"Cleaner, greener, smarter." That's how John Teresko characterized the material handling industry's shift to electric…
September 8, 2015
Does Obama Have Muscle to Win Ergonomics Fight?
Like actor Mickey Rourke's amazing return to the Hollywood ring in The Wrestler, labor is…
September 8, 2015
Ergonomics Opponents Girding for Battle
California Democratic Representative Hilda Solis was confirmed yesterday as President Obama's Secretary of Labor by…