Best Practices in Body Positioning

Best practices in body positioning Best practice is to know where your hands are at all times. Sometimes when we loose sight of our hands, we loose sight of what the dangers are. If you have to put your hands in a machine, an opening or some place where you loose sight of your hands, your only way of knowing what you’re doing is by feel. This can be a huge distraction on the safety awareness factor to which your hands are subject.

Best practices in body positioning The following situations could all lead to a recordable injury or even a death. We need to assess the areas where we are working to know where to place our hands and where not to place our hands.

Best Practice Label clearly Give advanced notice Use illustrations wherever possible

Best Practice Show and tell people from personal experience. Be descriptive, clear and to the point. Give full instruction on what to do or what not to do.

Best Practice Argon Bottle Bottle Cart Separately they don’t cause much damage, but put the two together with little or no experience and you will have a recordable injury.

Rollers on a wire reel holder Pinch point On unstable ground it could collapse Truck battery that exploded If the employee was not wearing safety glasses it would have burned his eyes with acid.

Between Man Lift and Fork Lift People always try and walk where they shouldn’t, whether it be lack of knowledge, being pre- occupied, or just lazy. This could result in a tragedy. Between tires and table

Between pipe and Man lift basket Placing our hands in the wrong spot can have life long lasting effects. High voltage power

These are just a few examples of situations we encounter every day. With the right training and the knowledge of standard operating procedures, we lower our risk of being in the wrong spot.