One in three injuries to Australian workers is caused by manual handling, with inexperienced workers at greatest risk. Manual handling injuries can be caused by lifting or carrying heavy loads, or by handling items in a variety of other ways including pushing, pulling, holding or restraining.
Research shows that implementing proper and suitable lifting equipment is the most effective way to prevent manual handling injury. Research by WorkSafe Victoria indicates that the most common injuries related to manual lifting, as shown by injury claims, are:
Back (48%) muscle strain and disc injury from lifting objects such as boxes, cartons, crates, bags, drums, powered tools, equipment and other materials
Shoulder (17%) traumatic joint/muscle injury and strain from lifting objects and repetitively handling objects or other materials
Abdomen (16%) hernias from heavy and/or awkward lifting.
The safety equipment and products developed by WorkRight Safety Solutions will help employers improve safety in their workplace, which will help improve productivity as there is less down time due to injury.
WATERGATE SAFETY GATE was developed to provide a fail-safe fall protection system for sites where forklifts load materials onto raised platforms or mezzanine floors.
LIFTRIGHT BACKSAVER TROLLEY was developed to reduce the risk of back injury when moving packaged goods. E.g. loading beverages into a refrigerator, or bags of cement into a customer's car at a hardware store.
LIFTRIGHT KEG HANDLING EQUIPMENT was designed to move beer easily and safely.
LIFTRIGHT MULTI-PURPOSE LIFTER has been adapted from our LiftRight Keg Lifter. It can be used in a wide variety of workplace situations to lift items up to 100kg.
LIFTRIGHT WHEEL LIFTER has been configured to lift wheels on and off vehicles and it can also lift a wheel onto a wheel balancer.
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