OSHA Safety for Trailers Drivers to Minimize Ergonomic Injuries

Manually raising and lowering the landing gear of a truck is a challenging task and can cause severe ergonomic issues. Air-powered automatic landing gear from the Patriot Lift Company satisfies OSHA safety for trailers appropriately. They have been found highly useful in improving hiring new drivers and retention of the existing ones.

Patriot Lift Company is widely recognized as the world leader in air powered landing-gear automation field. It is considered the pioneer and the leading company in the developing, designing, manufacturing, and support of USA-made landing gear automation. Several Transportation companies have adopted this automated technology for easing the landing gear operation so that the drivers can raise/lower the gears without having to apply too much force. Now, you can elevate and lower the landing gear of a heavily loaded trailer in 10 seconds with our On-Lift automatic air-powered landing gear. You do not have to waste a substantial amount of money and time on maintenance. It is exceptionally durable.

OSHA supports air-powered landing gear automation technology

In 2017 OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) nodded in favor of adopting air-powered landing gear automation technology for minimizing injuries that can result from manually raising and lowering the landing gear.

Some useful findings

It will be useful for the readers to get familiar with particular facts and figures compiled and presented by OSHA. It says that the Worker's Compensation settlement on an average basis for an injury because of repetitive cranking of landing gear amounts to around $35,000. Some recent studies conducted also point to the fact that the manual operation of the landing gear is responsible for causing the incidence of driver's injuries about 2.5% annually. The incidence of injuries among women drivers and aged ones for not using automated landing gear is even more, which is approximately 10% every year.

How the adoption of the tool can benefit your drivers?

The power landing gear tool is instrumental in decreasing the risks of muscular-skeletal injuries. It can easily produce sufficient torque power that you can control and adjust by monitoring the air pressure and the variable speed. Your drivers can now maintain their upright posture appropriately by utilizing proper body mechanics.

Air-powered landing gear can also sideline the need of drivers to bend frequently, rotate their neck, do wrist and elbow extension for turning the crank handle, etc. All these caused serious muscular-skeletal concerns among drivers, which aggravated more in cases of women and aged drivers. Back, arms, shoulders, wrist, and hands are the main body parts that suffered the most while manually operating the landing gear. OSHA safety for trailers drivers extended its full support and encouraged the use of on-lift landing gear automation designed and developed by the Patriot Lift Company.

What are the added advantages?

You will benefit from following this OSHA safety for trailers drivers recommendations in multiple ways, like

1. It can help you cut down on worker's compensation expenses
2. It can considerably reduce equipment damages
3. It will improve driver hiring and retention (covering all age, gender and even you can hire physically handicapped ones)
4. It will help to minimize trailer parking space.

Not investing in air-powered automated landing gear will be an unintelligence decision. Take the right step now to benefit your trucking business on an overall basis.

On-Lift is the most effective and reliable patented landing gear automation on the market worldwide. The automation is capable of raising and lowering landing gear in less than 10 seconds and there is virtually no maintenance required