Effective material handling is vital in keeping companies, and the world, moving efficiently. From the arrival of raw goods to completed and shipped final products, employees that handle these items ...

There's no such thing as a virtual package - someone's got to deliver it," says Dan McMackin, a spokesperson and former safety supervisor for Atlanta-based United Parcel Service (UPS). Even in the ...

Manual material handling (MMH) work contributes to a large percentage of the over half a million cases of musculoskeletal disorders reported annually in the United States. Manual handling refers to ...

Warehouses present safety challenges for the people who work in them. All warehouses house different types of goods and materials, and they handle and move them in different ways. Safety meetings ...

Vol. 7, Supplement 4. Proceedings of the US-Finnish joint symposium on occupational safety and health and the third annual NIOSH scientific symposium (1981), pp. 109-114 (6 pages) Published By: NOROSH ...

The following general procedures provide guidance to be followed to safely and properly work with toxins in the laboratory. Adherence to this procedure will ensure that employees and students are not ...

Manual material handling is the moving of objects unaided by mechanical devices. Manual material handling include activities like pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, and lowering. At Purdue ...