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How to prevent manual handling injuries in manufacturing + Checklist
Manual handling injuries are common in manufacturing industries and can have devastating consequences for workers and manufacturers. Manual handling injuries can significantly reduce productivity and quality of life if left unchecked.
Electric Tugs Bring Lean Manufacturing Benefits To Construction And Mining OEMs
Manufacturers of large construction and mining equipment are benefiting from lean manufacturing practices thanks to the use of pedestrian electric tugs from MasterMover.
Ergonomics in biopharma shouldn’t be an afterthought: The move to modular facility design
As the biopharma industry continues shifting towards a more mobile and modular facility design, the benefits of increased flexibility, agility, and decreased capital costs are quickly being realised by manufacturers of all shapes and sizes.
Manual Handling Solutions For Healthcare
Trust Managers in the NHS and Healthcare industry are neglecting easy and effective ways to improve efficiency in portering operations. Despite the NHS's goal of increasing efficiency by 2.2% per year, many simple measures are being overlooked. ...
Forklift Alternatives in Heavy Plant Manufacturing
Manufacturers of heavy equipment are under increasing pressure to meet demand, clear production backlogs and reduce TAKT times.
Ballroom Biomanufacturing Design - It Shouldn't Be Backbreaking
The ‘ballroom’ concept is the much trumpeted vision of the pharmaceutical ‘factory of the future’ but does this development create new safety risks for employees?
Making The Move From Manual To Mechanised In Biopharma
Alongside single-use systems, the ballroom concept continues to transform biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. The core idea behind the ballroom concept is the need for process equipment to be mobile, achieved through mounting equipment on ...
Taking Control of Manual Handling
Workers in the facilities management sector are often asked to move heavy wheeled loads - but pushing, pulling and dragging can pose serious short term and long-term risks, as MasterMover's Lizzy Butterfield explains.
HSE Advocates Use Of Motorised Tugs
As a recent article from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) champions the use of motorised tugs for hospital porters. MD Andy Owen points out that this is in line with MasterMover’s own lean way of thinking.
How to Eliminate the Risk of Musculoskeletal Disorders
Pushing, dragging and pulling heavy wheeled loads can take its toll on staff – and employers need to remain vigilant to the risks of manual handling, as MasterMover’s Andy Owen explains.
ATEX Electric Tugs Provide Safety and Efficiency North Sea
ATEX electric tugs engineered to the specific requirements of the UK oil and gas industry have been supplied by MasterMover.