Magliner

Fall brings a jump in order volume for many operations, and it isn't just more stops on the schedule. Seasonal freight tends to run heavier and bulkier too: think appliances, furniture, and oversized retail shipments moving ahead of the holiday rush. Equipment that held up fine during slower months can start to show its limits once loads get heavier and shifts run longer. If you want to do more than just keep pace, it's worth investing in a heavy duty hand truck and looking at the rest of your material handling fleet.  Heavy Duty Hand Trucks Are Built for Increased Demand A heavy duty appliance hand truck is built for exactly this kind of load. Rated to move up to 800 pounds, models come with ratchet straps that lock a load down, a fourth wheel that adds stability under an oversized item, and side wings that keep wide loads more supported. For crews handling appliances, furniture, or other bulky items through the fall rush, that combination means fewer damaged deliveries and ...

Safe material handling and general warehouse safety are features of warehouse work that benefit everyone. For management, it means lower insurance liability and vulnerability, not paying out workers’ comp, and not losing labor time or productivity to injury. Most importantly, it means that their employees are not being injured in avoidable accidents. And for employees, obviously, not being injured is a pretty compelling benefit.  Many of the following potential hazards (and the strategies for avoiding them) may seem like common sense. However, it’s the day-to-day, rather than the exotic risks, responsible for injuries to warehouse workers who may take the risks for granted. Forklift Safety This one’s likely no surprise. When there are vehicles cruising around a warehouse, driven by someone whose vision is often obscured by the load, there are bound to be some accidents. Accidents can be the result of either driver or pedestrian error. Both parties get used to...