Safety Training Program Highlights

About Materials Handling Safety

No one wants to be in an accident. That's why employees take so many precautions when they go about their jobs each day. However, many people feel that handling and moving the materials they work with every day is an "ordinary" task, not something that they really need to be concerned about.

In spite of this perception (or perhaps because of it) there are hundreds of thousands of "Materials Handling" accidents every year... from small splinters, cuts or scrapes, to crushed fingers, hands and feet... even deaths.

Employees need to recognize that materials handling activities can be dangerous.

They need to know proper lifting and moving techniques, how to use materials handling equipment safely and what personal protective equipment should be worn with various types of jobs.

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Materials Handling Safety