Ease the strain
Materials handling equipment specialist Lift Safe has made the lifting and moving of chemical containers much easier at the Tyne and Wear factory of filter manufacturer Essentra Components.
Essentra Components needed a lifter to move 25-litre chemical containers on its site in Jarrow.
Each time a container needed to be replaced, the old container had to be removed before exchanging with the new one. This process used to be done manually, a heavy, awkward task that was unsafe for the operators doing it, carrying a multitude of manual handling risks.
Now that Essentra has purchased a Lift Safe compact Lifter, the operators simply manoeuvre it into position and press a button to raise the lifting platform in line with the 25-litre container and slide it safely and easily on to the lifting platform.
The lifting platform of the compact Lifter is manufactured with a roller at the front, making it effortless to slide the container onto the platform, from where it is then secure to transport. The whole process is now much more productive and, more importantly, safer.
Lift Safe’s strong but lightweight lifters are capable of lifting up to 225kg in weight to a height of up to 3 metres, yet they are suitable for use in restricted spaces, as they are much more compact than standard stacker trucks on the market.
Lift Safe can supply these lifters with many different attachments, and even custom design them to fit customer’s application.
The risks of distress and pain to individuals, absence from work, time off for the treatment of injuries, disruption to the workplace and staff working below their optimal level of productivity have now been removed, while Essentra has peace of mind that it is protecting its staff’s health and safety.
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