Safe Lifting in Industrial Environments

This Interactive course on Safe Lifting in Industrial Environments discusses how lifting and carrying things can affect the back, and how employees can use safe lifting techniques to help them avoid back injuries in an industrial facility. We’ve all experienced back pain at one time or another, and it probably resulted from lifting something incorrectly. Maybe the load was too big or too heavy, or we lifted from an awkward position. But if you want to avoid injuries, you need to make sure that you use your back the “right way”. Areas covered in the course include the mechanics of safe lifting in an industrial environment, how to “listen” to your back, types of back injuries, preparing to lift something in a way that protects your back, how to keep your back safe when you’re lifting “below the waist”, and more.

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Topics covered in these products include:

  • Know the types of hazards that are associated with common lifting tasks.
  • Explain the physical principles underlying safe lifting practices.
  • Describe techniques that can be used to lift safely.
  • Know techniques that should be used for specific types of lifting tasks.
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Associated Industries: Industrial Environments.
Associated Topic Titles: Back Safety.


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