How Can My Workplace Benefit From Using Electric Lifting and Elevating Equipment?
Date Posted:23 May 2016
In any workplace, it’s important to eliminate or reduce manual handling effort, while boosting productivity and ensuring workplace safety.
In a warehouse environment, with so many items stacked in high or hard to reach places, proper manual handling and materials handling processes are particularly important for staff. Using the correct lifting and elevating equipment in your warehouse will protect employees from injury and increase efficiency and productivity for your business.
Today we’ll look at the types of lifting and elevating equipment available to employers and staff, and the benefits they can bring to their business.
What Manual Handling Equipment is Available for Lifting and Elevating?
There’s a range of workplace solutions available to make manual handling tasks easier and safer, including products for both lifting and elevating. These products include:
- Wide pallet trucks – electric and manual
- Electric fork stackers and lifters
- Jib attachments for forklifts
- Pallet elevators and lift tables
- Scissor lift trolleys and tables
- Manual stackers and lifters
- Pallet rotators and dispensers
Warehouses in particular will benefit from implementing these solutions, such as large retail and manufacturing businesses storing a lot of stock year round, and suppliers with very large quantities of homogeneous products that need to be stacked.
Employees of warehouses will appreciate being able to locate and reach items stored high, without risk of injury or accident.
The Benefits of Electric Lifting and Elevating Equipment
Depending on the frequency of loading and unloading, you can use forklifts, stackers, rollers, conveyors, cranes and loaders. This reduces exertion in employees, keeping them safer from back and muscle injury.
Some of this equipment can eliminate the need for labourers to enter a container or physically handle the load. This can minimise accidents, exposure to fumes, the risk of objects falling on top of employees, as well as the risk of staff being trapped inside a container.
Increased Productivity and Efficiency for Your Workplace
Using electric equipment, instead of relying on manual handling, will greatly increase your workplace productivity and improve day-to-day operations.
Lifting and elevating products such as electric fork stackers and scissor lift trolleys will allow staff to easily transport and move stock around the workspace.
By also providing staff with OH&S training on using lifting and elevating equipment in the proper way, you can greatly improve processes, and reduce task times for your employees.
For the experts in lifting and elevating equipment, get in touch with MHA Products. With over 25 years in the industry, MHA have the largest range of workplace manual handling equipment in Australia, supplying businesses Australia-wide. Contact the MHA team for more information or to arrange an obligation-free quote.
