A Practical Guide for Reducing Material Handling Loss Time Injuries © Risk Management Consultants,...

A Practical Guide for Reducing

Material Handling Loss Time Injuries

© Risk Management Consultants, Ltd. 1.800.470.7010

Lifting Training that Works!

Definition of Materials Handling:

Pushing-Pulling-Bending-Reaching-Sitting, Standing & Lifting

The basic body mechanics that need to be learned to generate safe material handling skills are all derived from Lifting techniques.


Your Goal:

Reduce material handling injuries in your operation.

Create a material handling safety culture based on

sound Ergonomic Principles and

POWERLIFT® Training.


Three Basic Requirements to Creating a

Material Handling Safety Culture


1. Effective Technique

You need to teach technique that actually works in real life.

We teach a Wide Stance POWERLIFT® Technique vs. the Squat Lift Technique.


Squat Lift:• Forces the lifter to come up on the balls of the feet.

• Knees and legs get in the way = load too far out.

• Knees bent in a deep squat position.

POWERLIFT® :• Feet flat on the floor – just like a weight lifter.

• Knees & legs out of the way, gets you closer.

• Knees only bend to a 100 degree angle – much easier on the knees and a stronger position.

POWERLIFTON A LOAD WITH HANDLES

POWERLIFT — ON A LOAD WITH HANDLES

POWERLIFTON A LOAD WITHOUT

HANDLES

POWERLIFT — ON A LOAD WITHOUT HANDLES

BRIDGING

STANDING UP A PALLET

2. Hands On Experience

You need workers to compare their

old way of material handling with

the new way - in other words, they

need hands-on, practical application in

the classroom and out at the task

sites.


3. Ongoing Training Changing behaviors is the key to

reducing injuries. Ongoing Training in the form of Coaching and POWERLIFT® Safety Talks are the

key to changing behaviors. Safety Talks must be reality based and

cover tasks common to the workers jobs at work as well as at home tasks.


Safety Talk Examples


LIFTING A PUMP

LIFTING AN EXTENSION CORD

LIFTING LARGE BULKY BOXES

LIFTING ANCHOR PLATES

PULLING ROPE & WIRE

HANDLING HOSE

LIFTING FORMS FROM THE GROUND

LIFTING HEAVY GENERATORS & PUMPS

OPENING RAIL CAR LIDS

OPENING THE STORAGE SHED DOOR

LIFTING POSTS

LIFTING REBAR

LIFTING STEEL PLATE

LIFTING FURNATURE

LIFTING A COOLER

LIFTING FROM THE GROUND

STANDING TO WORK

HANDLING STEEL

LIFTING YOUR CHILD FROM THE SOFA

DOES IT WORK?

POWERLIFT® Training has been found to be exceptionally effective over the past 20+ years.

Incident reductions of 50% to 100% are easily achievable provided you engage the three components of creating a material handling Safety Culture based on POWERLIFT®.

POWERLIFT® must become a part of the TOTAL SAFETY CULTURE.


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Dr. Michael J. SchaeferPOWERLIFT® Training

Risk Management Consultants Ltd.Office: 623-516-9552Cell: 623-229-1251

Email: [email protected]: www.PowerliftTraining.com


For More Information contact:

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.powerlifttraining.com/

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