If you’re a safety leader at a warehouse/DC facility, you’ll be interested in a new series of articles we’ll be writing over the next five weeks.
The topic we’ll be covering is MSD Prevention in Manual Material Handling Environments. Here is a taste of what we’ll be covering:
MSD Risk Factors in Manual Material Handling
Manual material handling tasks can be stressful on the bodies of workplace athletes. The physical nature of the work fatigues the musculoskeletal system — when fatigue outruns recovery it creates a muscle imbalance that can eventually lead to a musculoskeletal disorder.
How to Prevent Manual Material Handling Injuries
Prevention is proactive. MSD prevention is about proactively reducing risk through ergonomics and proactive healthcare. It’s impossible to prevent these injuries in a consistent and predictably way without a comprehensive process in place to reduce all contributing risk factors.
Common Ergonomics Solutions for Manual Material Handling
In this post we’ll cover common ergonomics solutions for manual material handling environments. You’ll see the power of a proactive ergonomics process in action.
How to Help Your Workplace Athletes Stay Healthy and Perform Well
Implementing a Workplace Athlete program at your warehouse/DC is an important step to keeping your people healthy and performing well. We’ll cover the benefits of a Workplace Athlete program and how you can implement one in your workplace.
Manual Material Handling Resources
In this post, we’ll share an extensive list of helpful manual material handling resources we’ve compiled over the years.
Stay Tuned
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