by jvcopeland | Feb 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Challenge of Low Back Pain in the Workplace Manual Materials Handling (MMH) remains a leading cause of low back pain (LBP) and injury across various industries. Workers performing tasks like lifting, lowering, pushing, and pulling face significant risks to their...
by Joe Copeland | Oct 2, 2024 | PowerLift Blog
There’s a diversity to the workplace that hides in plain sight. Maybe your workplace looks something like this: a 20-something year old employee works right beside a 50-something year old employee. Or a 60-something, or even a seventy-something year old worker. In...
by Joe Copeland | Aug 6, 2024 | PowerLift Blog
The ‘Holy Grail’ of a safe workplace The magical program that reduces workplace injury to zero. The employee community that is so well trained, back injuries are forever banished from the land. An employee base that never takes unnecessary risks, just to get the job...
by Joe Copeland | May 30, 2024 | PowerLift Blog
‘Git’r’Done’ is great. It’s even kinda funny. Until you’re one of its victims What gets us in trouble is what we don’t hear (or say). It’s three little words that lurk in the unheard and unsaid when there’s a ‘git’r’done’ mentality. Those three words are: … at any...
by Joe Copeland | Dec 5, 2023 | PowerLift Blog
It’s the most injure-ful time of the year… (with apologies to Andy Williams) Yup. It’s the holiday season. It’s that time of the year when there’s more to do, and less time to do it in. Holiday hours are extended, but workloads are larger. Much larger. In many...
by Joe Copeland | Sep 5, 2023 | PowerLift Blog
A roll of the dice? Maybe it’s hard to admit, but let’s face it: there’s a bit of madness to the method we use to keep our workers safe. Often, it feels like a roll of the dice: sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. Once upon a time, people lifted manual loads...
by Joe Copeland | Aug 8, 2023 | PowerLift Blog
Most of us have done all – or at least most – of the following: Taking out the garbage Rocking an infant or a toddler to comfort them Getting a glass of milk out of a gallon jug Grabbing your laptop backpack Making the bed Vacuuming the house. Oddly...
by Joe Copeland | Jul 12, 2023 | PowerLift Blog
It’s always nice to know we’re doing something right Recently, we at PowerLift® invited our clients and customers to take an email survey. While some of the survey was rated on a scale from 1 – 10, other sections were direct requests for feedback. The results...
by Joe Copeland | Jun 7, 2023 | PowerLift Blog
In plain sight There’s been a pandemic going on. And it’s not the one that immediately comes to mind. The pandemic to which we’re referring is hiding in plain sight. It happens every 7 seconds in the US. It’s a pandemic of workplace injuries. And it’s costing us....
by Joe Copeland | Dec 21, 2022 | PowerLift Blog
We begin this blog post with an acknowledgement Being the person accountable for the safety of employees takes an extraordinary human being. It takes someone who understands how vital it is to balance the health and wellbeing of workers with the business needs of the...
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