By: SCDigest Editorial Staff
The News: Toyota Material Handling UK has released a new guide that offers advice on avoiding materials handling-related injuries in distribution and manufacturing environments.
Why It's Worth Noting:
The guide mostly covers the basics, and certainly steers you towards some materials handling equipment solutions in the process, but it's easy to forget those basics at times. The guide includes a handy assessment form to help evaluate potentially dangerous materials handling scenarios.
The Story: The UK division of Toyota Material Handling recently released a guide to avoiding material handing-related injuries that may be worth requesting by many manufacturing and distribution managers concerned with maintaining a safe environment for associates.
The guide says that one-third of all industrial accidents are related to moving materials - a substantial percentage.
While most of the guidelines are common sense, putting them all in one place is handy to have.
"It is in the employer's legal interest to make sure their employees are handling goods and loads safely," the guide notes.
In addition to some basic guideless as far as safe practices for handling materials (keep loads close to the body, check your feet, etc.), the guide suggests where some simple automation, such as powered lifts and pallet jacks) can reduce the risk of injury.
Best of all is a simple assessment tool that provides a basic but useful framework for analyzing the potential risk of injury for material handling-related tasks.
The guide is available at no charge from Toyota's UK web site - we received a hard copy in the mail in just few days..
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The guide includes a handy assessment form to help evaluate potentially dangerous materials handling scenarios.
