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Make one wrong move- or move once too often and injuries happen. |
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Stop hoping that workers will use the right lifting techniques. Despite training warning and education, the right lifting techniques will be ignored-and injuries will occur.Injuries that can physically mentally and financially impair a worker for life- and rack up thousands in workers' compensation, legal fees, medical costs and retraining costs.
Stop the cycle
Quit believing that light loads don't cause back injuries over time. In 1991, 60 percent of all workplace injures were the result of Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTD)-the consequence of doing the same task repetitively...while using correct lifting technique.These injuries are growing at speed of five to ten percent a year costing employers at least $38 billion annually.
Take action
Lifting these light loads-over and over- caused the majority of CTD back injuries.The strength or size of your worker is unimportant to the risk.What is important is the number of times he or she lifts a day, a week or a month.
It's time to stop the cycle. It's time to end the injuries.
The end of injuries
When your workers are on the job, their health is on the line. Only you have the power to stop injuries. Embrace new technology.Restructure your operation.Gain the ergonomic edge and reduce injuries, increase productivity and protect profits.
A custom fit. The science of ergonomics. A concept that fits the job to the person. Each job is designed to accommodate each worker's specific limits. The result? Workers only use tools and equipment that are compatible with their abilities, causes their tasks to:
