Compliance with safety regulations is perpetually top-of-mind for industrial facility managers, and understandably so. After all, noncompliance can lead to unsafe working conditions for employees, ...

Always understand the purpose and operation of material handling equipment before use, and ask for demonstrations if unfamiliar. Never assume equipment is automatically safe, since all equipment is ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the workplace, we can view manual materials handling (MMH) as any process in which the human operator is asked or required to lift, lower, push, pull, carry or perform any other similar task in ...

ANNISTON ARMY DEPOT, Ala --- Is material handling a safety concern to you while here on the depot? It should be! Surprisingly, it’s a source of many safety issues within most field operations, depots ...

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 ...