Anyone who works in shipping and receiving – not for anyone who has ever worked on a new house or an apartment, a room receives a packet of mail, or call moves through the mail – knows the improvised solutions people may resort to if a package without a good box cutter on hand.
Some are working with a package wrapped package opener strict and not with a view to the front, will opt for brute force. Drag, push, push, stock and wear on the edges of the box, all without success. Tearon the free end of the tape until the tears – or not crack. The use of teeth is not known. Shoulders, trunk, cut fingers, and the fields are reduced to shreds, sometimes together with the materials inside. Other workers, without a utility knife will be a completely innocent package in a sometimes dangerous approach, with all kinds of hard objects in a sometimes dangerous approach, a folding knife, butter knives, spoon, scissors, screwdrivers, attack made key pointCan opener, fork, the sharp tip of a pen, or whatever is at hand, and the result is usually curved utensils, scissors, neck and shoulder pain, the better. In the worst case is the result of cuts, cracks and trips to the emergency room.
People who have just moved to a new house or apartment is located in the same position. Faced with empty rooms and tedious hours of unpacking – with its instruments, maybe put it somewhere in him to renounce all – many engines and the proper technique to extract allto open their boxes with all the necessary resources. Hours after the message loading and unloading trucks, lifting furniture, and the navigation after the field through a series of narrow doors, these motors arm and serious threat of shoulder muscle tension.
Funny how these improvised solutions may be observed, not terribly sure of them. And the protection of workers is not a trivial matter for the worker or employer. In each year after the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), nearly fiveMillions of workers to workplace injury or illness, and more than half of these injuries are serious enough to send home workers. This injury is one third of them in the form of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are in accordance with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Such disorders are painful for workers and costly for employers, both in lost productivity and claims of the workers' compensation. For workers who regularly handle heavy packages, these lesions are also and aboveinconvenient and difficult to avoid in particular.
Without adequate tools, such as knives, a security package maintainers – the shipping and receiving, or post office workers, or just ordinary people – not only the risk of accidents knife (which can be fatal), but also repetitive strain injury ( CSR), a type of musculoskeletal disorders that have made excessive demands of certain groups of muscles, exercising too much time on it for hours, because of abuse or poor posture. Using the wrong tools leads directly toThis muscular effort and abuse. Box cutters are designed to minimize the use of the muscles of the arms and shoulders. They therefore increase efficiency and save time, and the protection of workers from injury.
To avoid hurt when opening the packages, follow these simple steps:
– Put the box on the floor, the setting in a corner that does not hold the knife for you. In other words, make sure that the line of the tape horizontally and not vertically, in terms ofThem.
– Put your hand on the opposite side of the box.
– Instead of cutting straight across all at once, a series of small cuts smooth.
Above all, you should have good knives at hand. Use a carpet knife with a sharp knife, as dull blades require more pressure, which is a greater potential for injury. Maintain a complete set of utility knife box cutter knife and safety for employees and your house and have all of them in the correct handlesBox-cutting technology.
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