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Issue 258

Ergonomics

Reduce Pulling Force

Pushing allows you to use your body weight and larger muscles to move the load.

Ergonomics Principle: Push, Don’t Pull

Manual Material Handling Resources

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

Workplace Athlete Health

Prevent Slips, Trips and Falls

Pre-employment testing and balance exercises could reduce the instance of slips, trips and falls.

The Right Balance: Using Physical Abilities Testing to Reduce Injuries

Perception of Musculoskeletal Injury

The objective of this research was to gather information that will be used to create more effective education and outreach materials to promote early identification and prevention of WMSDs.

Worker Perceptions of Musculoskeletal Injury

Safety Leadership

Advice from America’s Safest Companies

“Compliance officers will tell you that less than 10 percent of the injuries on the OSHA 300 log are the result of a missing OSHA program. I was thinking to myself, ‘What are we doing the other 90 percent of the time?’ We were our own worst enemy,” said John P. McGillivray, manager of safety and environmental for Scot Forge Inc.

Advice from America’s Safest Companies: Scot Forge