Know your personal lifting limits and reduce them by half to ensure safety during manual handling. Use appropriate equipment like carts, slings, and palletizing to minimize physical strain and improve ...

TASK: Given a heavy object, the rescue team shall lift, move and stabilize the object utilizing only cribbing blocks, wood timbers, and 60-inch pry bars. This University of Extrication column is Part ...

Even more research has just confirmed that squat lifting (knees bent and back straight) techniques are no safer than stoop lifting (knees straight and back bent) techniques when picking up heavy ...

Make certain that all lifts are subject to a regular program of scheduled maintenance. There are seven key steps that anyone working on commercial vehicles should observe before lifting heavy-duty ...

In Part 1, we discussed theory involved in building and using an A-Frame Gantry. In this article, we will build one to practice with. At the risk of sounding like we're concocting a recipe, we are ...