by Joe Copeland | May 22, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
What prevents many workplace injuries and keeps your pants from falling down, all at the same time? Give up? It’s a belt. And it’s a belt unlike any other. The SmartBelt by Modjoul uses embedded hard- and software to monitor how people move, where they are, and the...
by Joe Copeland | Apr 16, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
Welcome to the New Normal in these United States. We now live in a time when: The American population is becoming increasingly older. The American population is becoming increasingly overweight. First, some numbers about aging. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports...
by Joe Copeland | Apr 3, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
The National Safety Council recently published a comprehensive report summarizing results from their 2017 National Employer and Employee Surveys on Workplace Fatigue. It’s clear from the report that fatigue is a serious safety problem. 32% of employers report injuries...
by Joe Copeland | Mar 14, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
Why limit safe lifting training to the workplace? Good lifting habits are a lifestyle and have global impact. That is to say, the habits aren’t left at the workplace after the shift is over. At work, the employee benefits from the peer-trainer relationship. He or she...
by Joe Copeland | Feb 19, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
“Culture is a living thing, powered by, and kept up to date by the people who are encouraged to be, in a meaningful way, part of it.” Micah Taylor, Forbes Peggy, whom we quoted in an earlier post, said that her success is the product of 3 years of training, review,...
by Joe Copeland | Feb 7, 2019 | PowerLift Blog
Let’s face it: there exists in most companies, an “us against them” mindset between operations and corporate levels. Which means that, if corporate hands down a safety training program, it won’t stick. Because the average worker will feel like the training is being...
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