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3.6 Material Handling

Material Handling

Identify any material handling required to accomplish the job.  This includes all material whether it will be handled manually or by powered means. This also includes guidelines for upper extremity (shoulder, arm and hand) use.

Review these Guidelines and Specifications for more details.

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Manual Material Handling
Manual Material Handling Guidelines

Here is list of basic manual material handling guidelinesRecommended Dimensions for Lifting Comfort Zone with Illustration

Recommended minimum and maximum dimensions for lifting within the comfort zone.
Material Handling Checklist (Word))

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Step-by-step checklist to assess manual material handling.REBA (Rapid Entire Body Assessment) (pdf)Rapid Entire Body Assessment provides a means to assess the risk that various body postures play in onset of musculoskeletal disorders.

Liberty Mutual (Spreadsheets)

Carry (Excel)

Lift Lower (Excel)

Push Pull (Excel)

 

Provides interactive data tables (Excel) for acceptable levels of Carry, Lift, Push and Pull.

Liberty Mutual (Design Goals)

Metric (pdf)

US Standard (pdf)

 

Provides recommendations in table format (pdf file) for acceptable levels of Carry, Lift, Push and Pull

Upper Extremity Handling

REBA - Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (pdf)Rapid Upper Limb Assessment provides for assessment of risk of upper extremity activities.TLV for Hand Activity (Excel)

TLV for Hand Activity (pdf)

Provides for assessment of Threshold Limit Values for hand activity (Excel and pdf formats)

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