Reduce Material Handling Cost: Ergonomics to the Rescue!

Did you know that the Transportation and Warehousing sector is responsible for 1 in 10 injuries at work, with a direct cost of $4.38 billion?
 
AUSTIN, Texas - Aug. 8, 2019 - PRLog -- Formaspace built these custom packing and shipping stations for Allied Electric. The built-in conveyor belts are at the proper ergonomic working height.

That's the finding from Liberty Mutual's new 2019 Workplace Safety Index (https://business.libertymutualgroup.com/business-insurance/Documents/Services/DS200.pdf), which identified five types of accidents that are responsible for two-thirds of the injuries in Transportation and Warehousing:

• Overexertion involving an outside source
• Falls to the same level
• Roadway incidents
• Other exertions or bodily reactions
• Falls to a lower level

What can be done to make packing and shipping stations safer for everyone?

The answer may lie in improved ergonomics.

Unlike Canada (https://www.canada.ca/en/employment-social-development/services/health-safety/reports/ergonomics.html) and the EU, which have minimum regulatory standards for workplace ergonomics, there aren't any equivalent US Federal requirements. Yet savvy employers know that a relatively small investment in better workplace conditions can reap significant rewards, by increasing employee performance while reducing the incidence of worker compensation claims, such as those due to repetitive strain injuries.

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