Handle any load with the care it needs using the right lifting equipment

Many workplace injuries every year are caused by people using improper procedures or equipment when lifting and manoeuvring heavy loads

. Indeed, the Health and Safety Executive says that a third of all reports of workplace injuries they and local authorities receive each year are caused by items being wrongly handled.

Businesses often need to store and handle items which individually may not be particularly heavy, but when packaged in large quantities can be a completely different matter. While a delivery driver may carry his own handtruck or trolley to help him load and unload large items, boxes and pallets, if the company receiving the goods is not so well equipped, this will cause delays, not only for the delivery driver, but will require extra hands to be called upon to safely manoeuvre the items to where they are required, so possibly taking these staff away from their other duties.

But if the business taking delivery has made a relatively small investment and bought its own load handling and lifting equipment such as pallet trucks, hand trucks or trolleys this can pay for itself in the amount of time saved in offloading.

Pallets are not the easiest items to move, especially if the dispatcher has been tempted to load them high with items of various sizes. A sturdy pallet truck will, however, make light work of handling these safely, ensuring that they do not need to be left where they can be an obstruction any longer than necessary.

Likewise, a small handtruck is the ideal solution for moving quantities of boxes in one go. It may be tempting to carry these singly, but what is the point when several can be loaded onto a single truckload, and then wheeled to where they are needed, saving valuable time and physical effort?

Pushing, pulling, lifting and lowering items around the workplace are responsible for many back injuries and strains to other parts of the body every year. When the help is at hand to ensure that no one suffers these injuries, no one should need to do over-physical work without having the best handling and lifting equipment to help them.

Suppliers of trolleys, handtrucks, pallet trucks and other lifting equipment can often arrange next-day delivery of these items from stock. With quick and easy telephone or online ordering also offered, it's easy to take a great deal of strain off your workforce.

Handle any load with the care it needs using the right lifting equipment

By: Jamie Francis

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