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TOOLBOX TOPICS

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PREVENTING STRAINS & SPRAINS

This Safety Meeting Outline is structured to help you apply general material handling rules to specific activities in which your employees are involved. You can choose work activities which apply to these principles and structure your safety meeting presentation to address them.

1. Identify a task involving material handling (lifting, pushing, carrying, setting down, etc.). 2. Break the task down into its most basic steps. What does the worker do? (Example: lift a case of material from a truck bed, turn and carry it to a location in the building where it is set on the ground). 3. Apply the lifting principles shown below, as applicable:

LIFTING FROM MOVING CARTS, LIFTING FROM LIFTING FROM SETTING LOADS TIPS WHEN PRE-LIFT TIPS A SHELF, DESK, HANGING LOADS GROUND LEVEL OVERHEAD DOWN CARRYING ETC. Look ahead to make certain the way is Determine the weight clear. of the load to be lifted or carried. Make certain you are Set the load down if it standing on a stable becomes too heavy or Get as close as Remember to push, Are you able to do it surface before you unstable. possible to the load. not pull whenever alone? Is help or attempt the lift. mechanical assistance possible. Avoid stairs when needed? Bend your knees, not Test the load to be ever possible. If your back. Pull the load close to Position the load so sure you can lift it unavoidable, use the your body and test it that your legs supply Does the size/shape of safely. Bend your knees, not banister or wall or to for weight. the force. the load present any Get a good grip on your waist. help you maintain problem? the object and test its balance. Bring the object off weight. Shift the weight of Use hands and arms the shelf or support Set down the corner the load to your legs for control and Will you have to carefully, maintaining or edge of the object Have someone open by keeping it close. direction of the load. turn/change direction Keep the load close your balance. closest to you first - doors, gates, etc. for while carrying the to your body and lift keeping your fingers you. load? using your legs. Avoid reaching and out from under the Keep hands & fingers While maintaining lifting at the same load inside the load control of the load, Change direction by time. whenever possible. Is the route you will Be aware of your bring it down to waist moving your feet not take clear of balance and what level. your hips. obstructions, slip, trip, part of your body is Watch for pinch or or fall hazards? doing the work. It shear points on carts, Whatever the task, Keep shoulders, hips should be your legs. dollies or hoists. GET HELP for heavy and feet pointing the Do you have a back loads! same direction. support belt, and are you wearing it properly? Never twist at the waist while carrying a load.

Safety Recommendations:______Job Specific Topics:______

M.S.D.S Reviewed:______

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