Starting with Safety 5 - Strong Arm Straps
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Body Stress
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Strong Arm Straps (Transport).
It is
OUR
responsibility to ensure adequate controls are in place to reduce the exposure to hazards
Topic:
Transport
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Strong-Arm Strap
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Exposure:
Drivers at Australia Post and Startrack perform a variety of tasks everyday. Strong-Arm straps are designed to make your job easier
when opening and closing curtains. We do most work by habit, and we want to make sure those habits are healthy habits.
Working with EMP has provided insights that the use of using Strong-Arm Straps will reduce injuries and incidents that can occur
from opening and closing curtains. This has been backed up by an assessment conducted by EMP and Dandenong Transport Facility
that identified Strong-Arm straps are helpful in reducing risk for all team members, regardless of your own height.
The photos below are from Brisbane Metro Transport who are committed to using the Strong-Arm straps and are working with
EMP who are conducting ongoing sensor observations with the use of the straps. Insights into the use of Strong-Arm Straps have
also been provided by Matt Gambell and his team in QLD.
Critical Controls:
How do we create healthy habits?
One way is to use a Strong-Arm Strap when opening and closing
curtains.
EMP recommends the following process when opening and closing curtains using the Strong-Arm Strap
1.
Hooking strong arm strap hook through curtain buckle for secure positioning
2.
Ensuring both elbows are kept as close as possible while pulling the curtain to reduce force and
strain on the shoulder and surrounding structures
3.
Looking forwards instead of up at the rollers to reduce neck strain
4.
Pulling curtains using bodyweight with elbows locked in place and not twisting or pulling with
arms to compensate while using the strap
Tolerance:
1.
As humans, we often go into auto pilot and forget the ba
sics as we “just” work to our habits.
2.
Have a discussion amongst the team when injuries are most likely to occur when pulling curtains, the benefits of using
Strong-Arm Straps and how we can create healthy habits to mitigate injury.
3.
Supervisors and HSR’s, do some TSO’s (Task Specific Observations) together based on the work identified by the
discussion
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help your team work safely using Strong-Arm Straps.
Injury:
Opening and closing curtains pose risk of shoulder, arm and back/neck injury during activity. Unexpected and forceful jarring
experienced when a curtain gets stuck is likely to expose a risk to hand and upper limbs.
Starting with Safety 5
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Back to Basics and Healthy Habits
Exposure
Controls
Tolerance
Injury
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