Safe and sound - Ergonomics, safety and security product roundup

摘要

How much do you know about keeping your workplace safe and injury-free? Take the forklift safety quiz, and review our selection of products that will help promote a safe, secure and comfortable work environment. What should you do if you're driving a forklift and it starts to tip over? Is it safer to stay in the vehicle, or to jump out quickly? If you said, "Jump out," you'd be dead wrong. A driver who did that would be putting his or her life in jeopardy. The safest way to survive a tip-over is to stay in the vehicle with your seat-belt fastened, a tight grip on the steering wheel and feet braced against the floor, leaning forward and away from the direction of the tip-over. "Driving a forklift requires special skills and knowledge," said Benjamin Mangan, president and founder of Mancomm in Davenport, Indiana. Mancomm develops and provides Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) compliance safety products and training for general industry and construction. "It scares me how little training some forklift operators receive. It's every company's responsibility to make sure their forklift operators are properly trained and certified before they ever get to run a forklift in the workplace."