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Increasing awareness through training can help prevent incidents, reduce reportable injuries and promote safer working conditions.
Whether working in hot or cold conditions, training that includes proper hydration and nutrition as well as dressing in layers aids in reducing injuries, enforcing rest breaks and providing either warm or cool rest areas can also benefit employees and reduce risk.
Keep Trainings Short
There is a great likelihood that training which includes
memorizing charts and diagrams of the human muscular system will not be well received. It would also be unnecessary because being able to label all of the muscles and ligaments in a body part is not essential to performing material handling job tasks correctly and safely.
Long trainings and those that cover too many topics at one time are also much more prone to failure. Breaking trainings into short discussions that can be completed in work areas in less than five minutes is more effective.
Unlike OSHA’s Powered Industrial Truck standard that outlines specific training topics for operators, there is not a specific standard that outlines training requirements for some of the common hazards that material handlers face. Employers who recognize hazards in material handling areas and proactively train their employees can prevent these all-too-common injuries.
Karen D. Hamel is a regulatory expert, trainer and technical writer for HalenHardy. She has more than 27 years of experience helping EHS professionals meet regulatory requirements and industry standards and has had more than 300 articles published on a variety of EHS topics. Karen is a CSP, Certified Instructional Trainer , Walkway Auditor Certificate Holder, OSHA-Authorized Outreach Trainer for General Industry, Community Emergency Response Team Trainer and Hazmat Technician.SheservesontheBlairCounty,PALEPC.
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