Compliance with safety regulations is perpetually top-of-mind for industrial facility managers, and understandably so. After all, noncompliance can lead to unsafe working conditions for employees, ...

As recycling continues to grow, the demands placed on recyclers to handle and process recyclable material has increased as well. Material handling is needed to transfer the recyclables to sorting and ...

Manual material handling (MMH) work contributes to a large percentage of the over half a million cases of musculoskeletal disorders reported annually in the United States. Manual handling refers to ...

Warehouses present safety challenges for the people who work in them. All warehouses house different types of goods and materials, and they handle and move them in different ways. Safety meetings ...

Manual material handling (MMH) activities are often of concern when assessing job tasks for risks that have the potential to lead to musculoskeletal disorders. MMH activities usually contain ...

Four months after federal safety investigators cited his employer for failing to provide workers with fall protection at a UPS facility in Addison, Ill., a 42-year-old employee of Material Handling ...

This program provides guidance on the safe operation of material handling equipment, such as forklifts, motorized pallet jacks, tractors, lawnmowers, overhead cranes, hoists, rigging hardware, and ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala --- Is material handling a safety concern to you while here on the depot? It should be! Surprisingly, it’s a source of many safety issues within most field operations, depots ...

Vol. 7, Supplement 4. Proceedings of the US-Finnish joint symposium on occupational safety and health and the third annual NIOSH scientific symposium (1981), pp. 109-114 (6 pages) Published By: NOROSH ...

Manual material handling is the moving of objects unaided by mechanical devices. Manual material handling include activities like pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, and lowering. At Purdue ...