PESO: Manual Material Handling

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Oregon OSHA

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PESO: Easy-To-Use Training in English and Spanish
PESO: Easy-To-Use Training in English and Spanish PESO is an easy-to-use, bilingual toolkit created by the Oregon OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Program to help employers deliver job safety training and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses. The complete toolkit contains tookbox talks, handouts,training modules and overheads to use for presentations. The complete toolkits are posted on the OR-OSHA website at www.orosha.org. The following are links to the PESO toolbox talks in this collection:
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Summary Statement

Brief description of activities involving handling construction materials, the hazards, and how to safely lift these materials. Part of a collection. Click on the 'collection' button to access the other items.

Five activities of manual material handling
Lift / lower	Push / pull	Twist	Carry	Hold

Never lift and twist at the waist!

Turn with your feet, not your waist.

Imagine placing a tomato between the palms of your hands and applying pressure with both hands. It is well within your abilities to apply enough force to cause the tomato to burst.

Now imagine using another tomato and apply force while at the same time twisting your hands is opposite directions. The tomato would burst under much less force.

The results would be similar but the latter example would happen more quickly and with less warning.

Squashed tomato