EACH year, injuries caused by manual materials handling are a significant cost to industry in terms of medical costs and lost productivity. According to recent Liberty Mutual Insurance statistics, ...

In the workplace, we can view manual materials handling (MMH) as any process in which the human operator is asked or required to lift, lower, push, pull, carry or perform any other similar task in ...

Manual material handling is the moving of objects unaided by mechanical devices. Manual material handling include activities like pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, and lowering. At Purdue ...

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The most common manual handling injury is to the back. In the UK, back pain is the second-most common cause of long-term absence from work and in the United States, it is one of the most common causes ...