A Practical Guide for Reducing Material Handling Loss Time Injuries

Lifting Training that Works!
A Practical Guide
for Reducing
Material Handling
Loss Time Injuries
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Definition of Materials Handling:
Pushing-Pulling-Bending-Reaching-Lifting
The basic body mechanics that need to be
learned to generate safe material handling skills
are all derived from Lifting techniques.
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Your Goal:
 Reduce
material handling injuries
in your operation.
 Create a material handling safety
culture based on POWERLIFT .
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Three Basic Requirements
to Creating a
Material Handling
Safety Culture
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1. Effective Technique
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You need to teach technique that
actually works in real life.
We teach a Wide Stance POWERLIFT
Technique vs. the Squat Lift Technique.
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Squat Lift:
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Forces the lifter to come up on the balls of the feet.
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Knees and legs get in the way = load too far out.
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Knees bent in a deep squat position.
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POWERLIFT :
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Feet flat on the floor – just like a weight lifter.
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Knees & legs out of the way, gets you closer.
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Knees only bend to a 100 degree angle – much
easier on the knees and a stronger position.
2. Hands On Experience
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You need workers to compare their old way
of material handling with the new way with
a kinesthetic experience - in other words,
they need hands-on, practical application in
the classroom and out at the task sites.
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3. Ongoing Training
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Changing behaviors is the key to reducing
injuries.
Ongoing Training in the form of POWERLIFT
Safety Talks are the key to changing behaviors.
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Safety Talks must be reality based and cover
tasks common to the workers jobs.
Safety Talks must cover at work as well as at
home tasks.
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Safety Talk Examples
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DOES IT WORK?
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POWERLIFT Training has been found to be
exceptionally effective over the past 20+ years.
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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 .
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POWERLIFT must become a part of the TOTAL
SAFETY CULTURE.
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Plant
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60
50
40
30
20
10
10
7
1
5
0
Year before Training
1
0
0
Year of Training
0
0
1st Year after Training
OSHA Recordable Cases
Lost Time Cases
Lost Time Days
Restricted Days
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0
1
0
0
3
2nd Year after Training
20
18
250000
WORKERS' COMP - BACK INJURIES
MANUFACTURING PLANT ~ 900 employees
18
16
200000
$219,267
14
14
12
150000
10
100000
8
6
6
50000
4
$61,864
2
$14,137
0
0
Year before Training
Year of Training
# Back Cases
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Total WC Cost Incurred (Back)
Year after Training
Post Training Survey
For More Information contact:
Dr. Michael J. Schaefer
POWERLIFT Training
Risk Management Consultants Ltd.
Office: 623-516-9552
Cell: 623-229-1251
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Email: [email protected]
Website:
www.PowerliftTraining.com
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