by Dr. Mike Schaefer | May 12, 2017 | Safety Talks
Pulling a heavy hand cart up steps can really load up your back. Using your legs is crucial to avoid a strain or even worse a sprain to the back. The key to using your legs is to have one foot on the step above and one foot on the step below, in other words, have your...
by Dr. Mike Schaefer | May 5, 2017 | Safety Talks
Your shoulder wakes you up in the middle of the night because it is throbbing with an intense dull ache. During the day you can’t raise your arm up above shoulder level and the doctor says the only choice is surgery. Now you realize that this nasty trouble is because...
by Dr. Mike Schaefer | Apr 27, 2017 | Safety Talks
If you find that the bag or sack you want to pull off the pallet is stuck, how would you go about breaking it free. Since you don’t want to use your back, lets look at using your legs for the job. To pull at the bag with your legs, make sure you are using a wide...
by Dr. Mike Schaefer | Apr 20, 2017 | Safety Talks
Handling pallets can be a very back breaking job especially because they are very large and bulky and sometimes really heavy. You can use POWERLIFT® in several different ways when handling pallets. Keep in mind however, that handling oak pallets should be a two person...
by Dr. Mike Schaefer | Apr 6, 2017 | Safety Talks
The most frequent lift on a load without handles, will be a squat lift/dead lift combination. The second most frequent lift on a load without handles, will be a back lift/dead lift combination. We must eliminate the squat or back lift with a wide stance, 45 degree...
by Dr. Mike Schaefer | Apr 4, 2017 | Safety Talks
To understand how to lift small objects off of the floor, you must first understand the Spinal Leverage Ratio. This is a formula that will tell you how much you are loading your back when you are lifting. It is a 10 to 1 ratio, where you multiply the weight of the...
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