On Route to Safe Material Handling. Letting people rush around as fast as they want seemed like a recipe for an increase in both the number and severity of car crashes.

In the material handling standard, 1910.176, OSHA only addresses the environment in which material handling occurs. Training is not addressed, but how can you ensure employees know the ins and outs of ...

As a safety consultant with more than 26 years of occupational safety experience, I believe safe material handling work practices to be one of the cornerstones of an effective safety and health ...

What a person can carry safely is often much less than what they can lift. If a person is required to carry an object frequently or over distances of more than a couple steps, the safe material ...

Many factors contribute to safe telehandler use by rental customers, including the design of the machine, choosing a model with ample capacity, proper operator training, and maintenance.

OSHA’s expectations for safe material handling are not limited to PIT operators or warehouse employees. A material handler’s sole job could be using a pallet jack to move pallets manually, or they ...

On Route to Safe Material Handling. Letting people rush around as fast as they want seemed like a recipe for an increase in both the number and severity of car crashes. By Ray Prest; Oct 01, 2021; ...