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...
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