http://www.safetynewsalert.com/no-more-back-breaking-work/ Occupational safety and health news for workplace safety professionals. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:27:56 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.safetynewsalert.com/no-more-back-breaking-work/comment-page-1/#comment-12655 Patrick Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:14:28 +0000 http://www.safetynewsalert.com/?p=2630#comment-12655 This is a great example of a company looking out for the health and safety of their employees while at the same time protecting the company from lost productivity and legal costs from injuries. Yes, there was a cost to implement the handling devices but productivity alone has a 2 year pay back. Then you add the payback from improved moral and savings from eliminating potential injuries and the payback is about 1 year or less. We have to orientate rolls stock of 2 tons for printing and in the process we had several employees with back strains in less than 3 years. We added a pneumatic roller to push the rolls then added an industrial size “lazy Susan” so the rolls could be easily spun to face the press. Since adding this $2000 of equipment improvements over the last 3 years we have had -0- injuries or back strain complaints in this area. Note: We settled a “claimed back injury” (in another area) for over $100k so the legality costs are also a major driver when implementing equipment to reduce injuries. Back injuries can be an easy injury to embellish and true back injuries can have a lifetime impact on the employee. Take care of your back! This is a great example of a company looking out for the health and safety of their employees while at the same time protecting the company from lost productivity and legal costs from injuries. Yes, there was a cost to implement the handling devices but productivity alone has a 2 year pay back. Then you add the payback from improved moral and savings from eliminating potential injuries and the payback is about 1 year or less. We have to orientate rolls stock of 2 tons for printing and in the process we had several employees with back strains in less than 3 years. We added a pneumatic roller to push the rolls then added an industrial size “lazy Susan” so the rolls could be easily spun to face the press. Since adding this $2000 of equipment improvements over the last 3 years we have had -0- injuries or back strain complaints in this area.
Note: We settled a “claimed back injury” (in another area) for over $100k so the legality costs are also a major driver when implementing equipment to reduce injuries. Back injuries can be an easy injury to embellish and true back injuries can have a lifetime impact on the employee. Take care of your back!

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