Moving items opens up many avenues for injuries. It could be bending over and hurting your back, straining yourself from carrying items that are too heavy, or not staying in ergonomic positions. From moving items with a hand cart to eliminating team lifts, here are some of the ways that proper material handling tools can help prevent injuries.
Make Materials Easier to Move
Moving a single box at a time is tiring. The more you have to move, the more opportunities for injury. A box could limit your vision, and you could bump into something, potentially hurting yourself or whatever you are carrying. Using a hand truck makes materials far easier to move without limiting your vision. Plus, you can greatly cut down on the number of times you need to walk back and forth from a delivery truck or moving van when you are delivering multiple items. Instead of carrying a single box, you can easily move multiple boxes at a time.
Avoid Bending Over
Bending over can cause strain in your back. Doing so repeatedly while restocking shelves can mean a shift where your back hurts for hours. A hand lift truck or powered lifting hand truck can help reduce the need to bend over to grab a box or items out of a box. The hand lift truck can lift the box up, making it easy to slide onto a shelf. Moving the items into place after lifting them off the ground is a much easier way to restock shelves than constantly bending over, picking up the box and placing it where needed.
Cause Less Strain
Carrying heavy items will tire you out and strain your muscles. With a convertible hand truck, you can move a wide variety of items that might be too heavy for you to carry on your own. The convertible hand truck starts as a classic upright hand truck but can quickly change to a horizontal hand cart. This is ideal for oddly shaped items or boxes of product that all need to be moved at once. Restocking a vending machine was never easier than with a convertible hand truck.
Eliminate Team Lifts
Team lifts put two people at risk. While lifting as a team does help distribute the weight, mitigating some risk, it means that if something does go wrong, two people could get hurt. With a heavy duty hand truck, a single person can move heavy items, such as fridges and sofas, short distances. This makes deliveries much easier. A motorized hand truck is perfect for moving those same items longer distances, such as from the warehouse to the showroom floor.
Stay in Ergonomic Positions
Staying in an ergonomic position helps reduce strain on your body and helps you avoid injuries. Hauling items up a flight of stairs could put needless strain on your body. A powered stair climbing dolly does most of the work for you, letting you instead focus on staying in an ergonomic position while the dolly moves a stack of items or boxes up each stair.
About Magline
Every day, professionals everywhere rely on Magliner material handling equipment to make whatever they’re doing easier, safer, and more efficient. Whether you need a traditional hand cart or choose to Design Your Own Magliner, you can find everything you need from this material handling leader. The innovative design of industry-leading Magliner equipment is driven by your requirements. That’s why, after 75 years, the words “Made by Magline” continue to serve as a promise of rugged reliability and the highest level of quality. That quality standard ensures Magline’s place at the forefront of material handling innovation and excellence for 75 more years and beyond. Learn how Magliner gear can deliver on the reliability of that promise for your business today.
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