Part of the Equipment and Workplace Safety track. Lesson 6 of 10.
Where in the shift: all of it.
The sequence
Store heavy things at working height.
Break loads down.
And design the station so the frequent work is inside the arc.
The decisions
Where heavy items live. A storage decision that becomes a lifting decision every day, and it is made once.
And whether the reach is safe. Reaching across the body with a load is where back and shoulder injuries come from, and it is a layout question.
What you are reading
Where the heavy things are.
And what requires a reach across the body.
What goes wrong here
Heavy storage high or low.
And a station that forces reaching.
Verification
Watch a full load get moved.
The boundary
Workplace injury prevention and response are governed by applicable safety requirements.