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(Updated) 58 Helpful Ergonomics and Injury Prevention Resources for Manual Material Handling

Manual material handling environments can be stressful on the bodies of workplace athletes. Help the workplace athletes at your distribution center stay safe, healthy, and productive with these helpful ergonomics and injury prevention resources.

58 Helpful Ergonomics and Injury Prevention Resources for Manual Material Handling

Ergonomics

Exo Strategy: Preventing Pain Points with Exoskeletons

‘”What I’ve been pushing is going toward proactive and predictive ergonomics, where we can foresee what’s coming up and try to avoid it,” he says. “As a paradigm of safety and how you avoid an incident, you try to engineer it out to begin with.” This usually means throwing a robot at the problem, but certain complex tasks, especially wiring up the overhead of a Boeing 777, is something only a highly skilled human can perform.”If you can’t design or automate it out, that’s the niche exoskeletons fill,” Reid explains.’

Exo Strategy: Preventing Pain Points with Exoskeletons

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Snook Tables

Learn how to use the Snook Tables to evaluate manual material handling tasks for ergonomic risk factors.

A Step-by-Step Guide to Using the Snook Tables

Workplace Athlete Health

Head / Neck Injury Prevention 101

The nerves of the body enter the head through the neck. With such sensitive wiring passing through such a mobile structure, the potential for problems is high. Sustained work postures such as forward head and arm positions can contribute to muscle imbalances and compression, which can interrupt the flow of nutrients and oxygenated blood to the arm, wrist, and hand for muscle recovery

Head / Neck Injury Prevention 101

How to Stay Hydrated

Because industrial workers are also exposed to operational hazards, many are required to wear personal protection equipment (PPE). However, multiple layers of stifling equipment combined with high-heat environments can create potentially fatal situations. Under these circumstances, the risk of dehydration increases dramatically, which can negatively impact workers’ ability to maintain focus, posture and operational functionality on the job.

Staying Hydrated at the Worksite

Safety Leadership

Defining Safety Excellence: What Does Great Look Like?

Safety excellence must be described in operational terms and make sense to the audience whose behaviors you are trying to influence. Safety excellence is more than just repeating great results. It is also profound insight into how the results were obtained, with a shared mindset throughout the culture that continuous improvement will always be possible.

Defining Safety Excellence: What Does Great Look Like?