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Hand Carts/Trucks Material Handling - Safety Training Video - Prevent Back Injury, Hazards, Unsafe Work! Never miss a new safety video! Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=safetymemos Share this video with your co-workers, employees and family members. Proper use of hand carts and hand trucks can prevent back injuries and back pain. Every industry, from construction to nursing to retail and every other job out there has back injury hazards. In this short training video we discuss the proper precautions everyone should take when using hand carts or hand trucks. OSHA, along with many other agencies, offers helpful tips on back safety and hand trucks when used in manual material handling, and several links are provided below. Our free safety video is written in practical terms to help you apply proper body mechanics no matter where you are - at work, at home, or anywhere else. We discuss hazards that cause injury, as well as several important facts to help you apply solid, proven injury prevention techniques. From a risk management standpoint, there are several things that you should remind yourself to do before using manual material handling equipment, including hand carts and hand trucks. Back injuries are often the result of long-term application of wrong and harmful techniques, leading to a lifetime of chronic back pain. Watch this video along with several others we provide on the topic of back safety, and avoid injury. There are substantial differences in manual material handling equipment. Know the options available to you. Choose the right piece of equipment for the job and use it correctly. For more videos like this one, see our channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/SafetyMemos Pushing & Pulling - Handcarts http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/ergonomics/push2.html Hand Trucks https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/beverage/hand_trucks.html Review of the risks associated with pushing and pulling heavy loads http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr228.pdf