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Safe Lifting
Today, forklifts, hoists, dollies, and other types of lifting equipment are
used to lift heavy objects. However, sometimes it is necessary to load or unload
moderate to heavy objects by hand. When that is the case, knowing the proper
ways to lift can save you a great deal of pain and misery from a sprained back.
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The following are the stages in Safe Lifting manually:
Preparation
Lifting
Carrying
Setting Down
Preparation
This stage requires anyone to assess the situation before lifting or carrying a
heavy object by asking the following questions:
Lifting
Get close to the load. Center yourself over the load and stand with your feet
shoulder width apart.
Tighten your stomach muscles. Tight abdominal muscles increase intra-
abdominal pressure and help to support the back.
Get a good handhold and pull the load close to you. The farther the load is
from your body, the heavier it will feel.
Bend your knees. Bending your knees is the single most important thing
you can do when you lift moderate to heavy objects. Squat down like a
weightlifter, bend your knees, keep your back in its natural arch, and let
your legs do the lifting. Your leg muscles are more powerful than the
smaller muscles in your back.
Do not jerk. Use a smooth motion and lift straight up.
Do not twist or turn your body while lifting. Keep your head up and look
straight ahead. Hold the load close and keep it steady.
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Carrying
Change direction by turning your feet, not your back. Your nose and your toes
should always be pointing in the same direction. Any sudden twisting can
result in taking out your back.
Rest if you fatigue. Set the load down and rest for a few minutes.
Do not twist or turn the body; instead, move your feet to turn. Your hips,
shoulders, toes, and knees should stay facing the same direction. Keep the
load as close to your body as possible with your elbows close to your sides. If
you feel fatigued, set the load down and rest for a few minutes. Don’t let
yourself get so fatigued that you cannot perform proper setting down and lifting
technique for your rest.
Setting Down
Bend your knees. Squat down and let your legs do the work.
Keep your back curves. Remember not to twist your body while setting down a
load, and keep your head up.
Keep the load close
Plan your release. Once the load is where you want it, release your grip. Never
release your grip until the load is secure.
Push rather than pull. It is easier and safer to push than to pull. You can use
your body weight to assist when pushing.
Keep close and lock your arms. Stay close to the load, try not to lean over and
keep your back in its natural arches.
Use both hands. Carts are easier to push and control using both hands.
Use tie-downs, if necessary, to secure the load.
2. Forklifts
Load nursery materials not more than the loading capacity of vehicle if it is
handled manually, and no more than 20 feet if using a forklift
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Remove all pointed and dangerous points of plants before loading
Load and level plants/planting materials on solidly supported bracing.
Ensure that load is stable and self-supporting
Do not overload the truck to avoid damage to plants/planting materials
and not too difficult to unload.
Stack bags of fertilizers and bundles of planting materials in interlocking
rows to keep them secure; and
Stack bagged material (fertilizer or compost) by stepping back the layers
and cross keying the bags at least every ten layers (to unload bags from the
stack, start from the top row first).
Big uprooted plants can be loaded to truck by the use of forklift in order
not to disturb nor destroy the rooting system of newly uprooted plants.
What should a nursery worker know before moving, handling, and storing
materials?
In addition to training and education, applying general safety principles—
such as proper work practices, equipment, and controls—can help reduce
workplace accidents involving the moving, handling, and storing of materials.
Whether moving materials manually or mechanically, the nursery workers
should know and understand the potential hazards associated with the task at
hand and how to control their workplaces to minimize the danger.
Because numerous injuries can result from improperly handling and
storing materials, workers should also be aware of accidents that may result
from the unsafe or improper handling of equipment as well as from improper
work practices. In addition, workers should be able to recognize the methods for
eliminating—or at least minimizing—the occurrence of such accidents.
Employers and employees should examine their workplaces to detect any
unsafe or unhealthful conditions, practices, or equipment and take corrective
action.
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III. Accompanying DepEd Textbook and Educational Sites
https://slideplayer.com/slide/2420231/
https://ehs.unc.edu/workplace-safety/ergonomics/lifting/
https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA2236/osha2236.html
1. Directions / Instructions
2. Exercises / Activities
Activity 1:
A. Look for any reading materials/resources, or surf from the net about
manual handling of any farm inputs or outputs while working in the
farm or plant nursery that caused body injury. You may also use any
reading articles regarding a farmer who was injured due to improper
handling of farm/nursery loads or if you have witnessed such
situation. You may also write your own experience described in full
details (2-3 paragraphs with 100-120 words).
2. Where did you go wrong? In your own assessment, what can you do
next time so that those bad experiences will never be happened again?
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Activity 2:
Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on your
notebook.
1. What is the first thing to do before lifting the object?
A. Ask help from the co-worker
B. Test the weight of an object before lifting
C. Push the object immediately
D. Get the trolley or pushcart to transport the object
5. Pushing the load using hand cart, trolley or pushcart is better than
lifting or pulling because ______________________________.
A. It is easier and safer to push the load with the aid of pushcart or
hand truck
B. Body posture is maintain even pushing harder the loaded cart
C. It is easier to control the loaded cart with both hands and not
prone to accident
D. All the above
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Activity No. 3
1. The safety procedures that must always to remember in loading and unloading
nursery inputs and outputs are:
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2. The following are the safeguards that an employee should follow before handling,
loading, and storing of nursery materials:
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V. Reflection
How do you apply the lifting principles with the following scenario?
1. What do you think he should do first before carrying the heavy load?
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https://safestart.com/ergo/
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https://twitter.com/brucebigplant/status/978175781083009024
3. Trolleys helped nursery workers in carrying and transporting planting
materials from one place to another. What principle of lifting is applied in
the picture?
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