SAFETY- INFORMATION

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Use Your Head and Save Your
SAFE LIFTING
LARGEST CAUSE OF
ACCIDENTS AT
WORK
37% Manual Handling
19% Slips, Trips and Falls
12% Other Causes
20% Struck by an Object
7% Falling from Height
5% Machinery
Back!
KINETIC LIFTING
Plan the route
Position your feet - bent knees,
straight back
Firm grip, lift smoothly,
Move the feet do not twist body
Keep the load close to the body
Put down smoothly then adjust
for final position

Bend
your Firm grip,
Stand
knees - lift
close to
not your smoothly,
the load
back!

Put down
Move the Keep the smoothly
feet do load then adjust
not twist close to for final
body the body position

From hard-to-get-at places...

Get as close to the load as
YOUR POWER possible
(SAFE LIFTING)
ZONE Keep back straight, stomach
muscles tight Maximum Safe
Lifting Weight
Push buttocks out behind you.
KEEP THE LIFTS IN = 51 lbs.
THE POWER (SAFE Bend your knees
51 lbs = 23.1kilogram
LIFTING) ZONE IF Use leg, stomach, and buttock
POSSIBLE. National
muscles to lift -- not your back.
Safety Council