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July 26, 2010
By: CartPro
Category: Productivity Tips, Safety and Ergonomics, Warehousing, ergonomics, fulfillment
When your business thrives and survives on warehousing product for a big client until they need it, short deadlines can be a common occurrence. You can sit on product for weeks at a time and then, all of a sudden, the client needs a rush put on shipment. The okay to go ahead and ship (and subsequently bill for) the product is great news for you, but the manner in which your employees must perform to make the rush shipment happen can be dangerous if you don’t have the proper equipment.
A Power Pusher form DJ Products can handle a wheeled cart loaded with up to fifty thousand pounds of product and is easy enough to operate that a single employee is capable of handling the job. The compact design of the Power Pusher lets employees navigate large loads around tight quarters with much less of a chance of an accident than older styled bulky powered movers and the sealed battery power supply means both lower operating and lower maintenance costs.
If your employees are attempting to lug and push around carts that weigh ten, twenty or even fifty thousand pounds manually, they are putting themselves at serious risk for an injury. More employee injuries results in staffing shortages and ultimately costs your business plenty of money. The Power Pusher from DJ Products not only makes the job of moving heavy carts much easier, each Power Pusher is ergonomically designed to help prevent many of the nagging injuries that are often associated with warehousing and material handling.
Even the best and most experienced employees will struggle to safely and efficiently complete a job if they don’t have access to reliable and properly designed equipment. DJ Products has become synonymous with providing safe reliable and effective equipment for all material handling needs and the Power Pusher is one of the most versatile pieces of equipment we make.
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July 02, 2010
By: CartPro
Category: Business Tips, Productivity Tips, Products, Safety and Ergonomics, ergonomics, retail industry
Full dumpsters and trash containers need to be stationed at the right place and at the right time in order to be picked up. This is critical for apartments, condos and retail establishments that accumulate trash quickly because missing a pick up could potentially create a build up of waste and unsanitary conditions. For this reason, employees are often asked to do whatever it takes to get the waste container to its destination, which could potentially compromise safety and put employees and property at risk.
The process of getting the heavy waste container, which may weigh in at a few thousand pounds or more, to its destination could involve employees having to push or pull the dumpster over several hundred feet over rough or hilly terrain. This can be a very dangerous undertaking for one, two or even three employees regardless of the weather, but the high temperatures of the Summer or the ice and snow of the Winter can greatly increase the chance of overexertion and injury.
The battery powered WasteCaddy from DJ Products lets a single employee safely maneuver a fully loaded trash container over any distance and any type of terrain with no worries at all. The very reliable and ergonomically designed waste container mover makes this job that usually requires multiple employees an easy task for just one employee.
Using properly designed equipment to maneuver heavy dumpsters and recycling bins drastically reduces the chances of injuries, while at the same time increasing productivity by allowing the job to be completed by one employee instead of two or three. The job gets done faster, easier and with less of a chance of injury or property damage and this is an optimal situation for both management and the employees.
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June 25, 2010
By: CartPro
Category: Business Tips, Material Handling, OSHA, Products, Safety and Ergonomics, Warehousing, ergonomics, retail industry
More than five thousand workers are killed on the job every year; weekly reports can be viewed on OSHA’s website detailing the individual events that caused the fatalities. This is a very scary number, but what’s scarier than the sheer number of deaths that occurred is that many of them probably could have been prevented.
For the week ending May first (the latest week with an available report), there were nearly twenty fatalities. One of the accidents involved an employee of a major national retailer who climbed onto a storage rack and fell while attempting to get back onto a ladder. There are other instances on the weekly report that point to poor judgment on the part of the employee and many that occurred as a result of faulty or malfunctioning equipment. These reports show that the proper employee training and education and the presence of properly functioning equipment that is specifically designed to handle the type of work being performed can most certainly prevent injuries and very likely save lives.
Warehouse and material handling equipment needs to be more than just fast, it needs to be reliable and safe in order to provide the best possible work environment. The best material handling equipment is quiet, reliable and easy to use because equipment failure and overly complex controls can increase the chances for accidents and injuries.
Employees need to be properly trained on how to use each piece of material handling equipment that they will encounter while performing their job duties and they need to be well aware of all general safety procedures and practices for the workplace.
There will always be injuries in a line of work that requires plenty of physical labor and the transport of heavy materials, but with the proper education and the safest and most reliable equipment, those injuries can be kept to a minimum.
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