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Training Prevents Overexertion-type Push and Pull Injuries

With So Many Options, You Have to be Sure You Make the Right Choice. We Can Help.
With So Many Options, You Have to be Sure You Make the Right Choice. We Can Help.

The CDC has estimated that 30% of worker injuries stem from overexertion. Pushing and pulling causes at least 1 in 5 of those injuries. All are preventable if workers have the right tools and training.

The occupational health consultants at Ergonomics Plus stress the importance of a two-pronged approach to preventing overexertion injuries: training employees about proper habits and motions, and empowering them with powered equipment such as our WasteCaddy dumpster mover.

When it’s not an option to use motorized assistive tools, workers should practice the best mechanics for pushing and pulling. Top safety tips to give your team include:

> When possible, push rather than pull

> Ask a coworker to help with heavy loads

> Keeps floors clear and safe

> Avoid sudden, jerking motions

> Stand with feet shoulder-width apart

> Push with hands at chest height

Prevent Workplace Injuries When Moving Dumpsters & Carts

Anywhere that workers need to push or pull heavy carts, they need proper training and tools. This goes for distribution centers and warehouses as well as retail, apartment complexes, and office buildings.

If your staff must move heavy dumpsters, such as transferring from the parking garage to an outside pickup location, a battery-powered trash bin mover can help.

DJ Products makes the revolutionary WasteCaddy dumpster mover and the WasteCaddyLite to partially automate the task of moving dumpsters and waste bins. Workers simply steer, while the 3-mph powered dumpster mover safely maneuvers even on icy, rocky, or inclined ground.

Are you losing maintenance staff or paying workers’ compensation claims related to overexertion? Take a look at the WasteCaddy dumpster mover lineup from DJ Products.

Highlighting the DJ Products Shopping Cart Retriever

Shopping Cart Caddy
The Shopping Cart Caddy

With their tendency to drift off in unpredictable directions, gathering shopping carts can be like herding cats. Make this difficult task easier and more efficient with a battery-powered shopping cart pusher from DJ Products.

Who Wants to Chase Shopping Carts?

Right now, gathering shopping carts at your business is a completely manual operation. Hourly employees take time out from other duties to chase carts around the parking lot and maneuver an increasingly awkward chain.

Pushing and pulling are frequent causes of workplace injuries, making this a particularly risky job. Add the inconvenience of bad weather and retrieving shopping carts becomes a thankless job for any employee.

A Simple Solution to a Tough Problem

Our shopping cart pusher lets a single employee of any age, size and gender move up to 50 shopping carts at one time. Once the pusher is attached to the back of the line of carts, the employee stands in front to guide the line and uses a remote control to activate the pusher.

In addition to making your employees’ job easier and safer, our shopping cart pusher has other money-saving benefits.

  • Car dings from loose carts are a huge pet peeve for shoppers, so a lot full of stray carts can be a deterrent to business.
  • Carts left out in the parking lot can often tempt people to take them for their own use.

Money- and Labor-Saving Solutions from DJ Products

Our shopping cart pusher is the perfect solution to a long-standing problem. Visit our website and use our handy chat feature to learn more about our full line of electric pushers, pullers and tugs.