In factories, warehouses, and even in mechanics workshops, there are always items that need to be moved around. While it can sometimes seem tempting for staff to simply pick up an object and move it, it is vital that the proper industrial carts are supplied in the workplace, and a culture of care is instilled to prevent accidents and injury.
Back problems are one of the biggest costs to American industry, with millions of days lost every year due to staff getting injured in the workplace and being unable to work as a result. In the main, injuries are caused by improper lifting technique. The best way of avoiding your staff from getting injured is to minimize the amount of lifting and carrying that they have to carry out by ensuring that you have industrial carts available to move things from one location to another.
While fork lift trucks and pallet lifters are essential when managing a warehouse in which extremely large quantities are being moved around at any one time, in a factory, it is normally the case that items are moved as single entities, or at the most a couple of items, and rather than having a large fork lift passing through a busy working...