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b'Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! We appreciate you listening in with us today. Be sure to Subscribe to us on iTunes, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast or your favorite Pod Catcher, it\\u2019s free and you won\\u2019t have to catch a Facebook post to grab every episode. It\\u2019ll notify you of a new show and you\\u2019ll never miss one! Speaking of Facebook, you can check our feeds there and on twitter using @whseandops, we continue the conversation on both each week and use them for articles and such that we run across every now and then. Enough of all that lets talk Op\\u2019s for a few minutes now!
\\nA good friend sent me an article from CNN.com and said we had to talk about it on a WAOC episode! You know, what we do in our industry, warehousing and transportation can be so dangerous if we\\u2019re not properly trained or don\\u2019t think about our Safety at all times. Many of the tasks are repetitious, we do them day in and day out every day and every week. When handling freight, even one wrong lift or just twisting wrong can ruin our backs. Using even the manual pallet jacks can be dangerous. And through our Powered Industrial Truck training we know how dangerous our equipment can be. Transportation and Driving, now that\\u2019s a whole other story, on the road with 30k to 80K pounds under us. It takes training, focus and being aware of our surroundings at all times to remain safe. The CNN story was https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/23/uk/farmer-killed-forklift-dog-gbr-scli/index.html
\\nabout a 70 year old man, we\\u2019d have to assume he was very experienced with operating the lift on his farm. It happened in the UK, in a small farming town in western England. He had his Jack Russel dog with him that day, it sounded like they always rode together when he was working out in the fields. The coroner believed the gentleman left the operators compartment, placed the unit in neutral to open a closed gate, walked in front of the lift and the load to open the gate and his dog inadvertently hit the forward lever which geared the lift, crushing his owner between the gate and load. Something as simple as setting the parking brake may have saved his life. As we\\u2019ve learned from our PIT training, never to get out of the seat without setting the brake and turning off our units! A split second choice can change our lives, and the lives of our loved ones.
\\nI went on-line looking for some good data on equipment accidents, and to be honest found way too many incidents, so many accidents can be avoided, we just have to stay focused on our jobs and try not to let all the distractions, well distract us.
\\nhttps://www.lantech.com/blog/pallet-jack-safety-fails-a-serious-problem?region=1
\\nHas a good article on pallet jack safety fail\\u2019s, a few links to video\\u2019s showing us what not to do and how dangerous those choices can be. They state that between 2002 and 2016 OSHA reported 56 major injuries occurred involving pallet jacks. These included 25 fractures, four fatalities and 8 amputations. Common sense should tell us to never place our feet under or near a load and to watch for pinch points on our fingers when handling the controls. This article does a good job of pointing out that we are our own worst enemy regarding pallet jack usage, the fun and games are always a blast until someone gets hurt right?
\\nAs embarrassed as I am to say it, I actually broke my left arm once operating a tugger. Not following the preferred work method, I swung my foot around the back of the tovair to unhook a buggy latch and my shoe lace got hung up on the buggy release pulling me off the machine with me landing on my arm and face. A hard lesson learned to say the least.
\\nhttps://ohsonline.com/Articles/2013/09/01/Death-by-Forklift-is-Really-the-PITs.aspx tells us that there are roughly 85 forklift fatalities and 34,900 serious injuries each year, with 42% of the forklift fatalities from the operators being crushed by a tipping vehicle ...'