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Roll Lifter Ergonomic Design

January 2nd, 2012

A roll lifter, also known as a drum roll lifter or mobile automatic drum roll lifter, can transport a wide variety of large, heavy items. Roll lifters can lift, tip, mix, empty and transport items.

Roll LifterRoll lifter ergonomic design can eliminate muscle, joint and back injuries while increasing a worker’s overall output. Roll lifters often have a load attachment that can be easily changed to fit multiple needs. Using a roll lifter will maximize your productivity in two ways:

  1. Save on the cost of moving stationary equipment
  2. Avoid disruptions to the manufacturing process

Roll lifters not only maximize productivity but also enhance the safety of your workers and reduce work-related injury costs, all of which are absolutely necessary. The average cost of a lost-time injury claim in Ontario through WSIB in 2007 was $98 000. It’s obvious that you can’t afford to have your employees working with hazardous, unsafe equipment. » Read more: Roll Lifter Ergonomic Design

Ergonomic Essential – How to Design the Ultimate Car Seat

December 29th, 2011

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The average American spends approximately 11.75 hours in their car each week. That’s more than 611 hours per year! Considering how much time your customers and prospects spend sitting in their cars, it is vital to their long term health and your customer satisfaction ratings that your car seats are created with ergonomic design elements that provide maximum support and protection. In this article, I’m going to share with you the top 6 “ergonomic essential” for creating the safest, most comfortable car seat possible. » Read more: Ergonomic Essential – How to Design the Ultimate Car Seat

Ergonomic Design : Work Smart, Not Hard

December 19th, 2011

If mowing the lawn is a pain in the neck-or your shoulder or wrist-consider the ergonomic design of your lawnmower.

Ergonomic Design_HRRErgonomic design applied in a phrase working smart not hard. Increasingly, ergonomic industrial designers are creating functional, comfortable and easy-to-use products. Ergonomic design tries to help reduce physical stress, maintain energy and allow the gardener to enjoy more time outdoors.

According to the experts at Honda Power Equipment, attaining the right cut for that coveted yard of the month starts with an easy-to-use mower. “Lawn mowing should be as productive and effortless as possible. When the operator has to constantly grip the handlebars to increase speed, adjust a jerking mower on an incline, or wrestle to fit it in the garage, mowing becomes a chore,” said Kristen Delaney of Honda product planning. At Honda Power Equipment, manufacturers of a complete line of lawn care equipment, part of technological innovation is ergonomic designing for equipment that adjusts the job to the worker.

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