Hey All,
I work at a food based subscription service, we have recently started making the ice packs used to keep the protein cold in house.
We use a machine to create the ice packs, a team of 3 people then put them into crates and move them onto a pallet which is only about a meter away from the machine the packs come off, they're are then stored for use on production days, the issue were having is each crate weighs around 24 kilos which is fine to lift but they are fitting 36 on a pallet and making about 8 pallets a day, this week we've had an incident with a back injury due to this.
I've been trying to find a solution to stop any further injuries happening, such as reducing the weight of each crate, but obviously the same amount of ice packs need to be made a day so there still going to lifting the same amount overall.
I was looking into back support belts, but I've heard these don't really help at all and can actually cause a false sense of security and cause more issues.
Can anyone suggest anything that could help?
I didn't find the right solution from the internet.
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