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 ...

Moving day is challenging enough without worrying about throwing out your back or damaging your floors while lifting that massive sofa or dresser. Whether relocating to a new home or simply ...

Are you finding it a little more difficult to lift grocery bags out of the car or carry cooking pots from the stove to the sink? It’s not uncommon as the years pass. A study of nearly 5,000 adults, ...

A construction worker’s physical body is one of their greatest assets in this line of work, which is why it’s critical to ...

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 ...

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 ...