Lifting / Weight Hazard / Load Capacity Safety Signs

Safety professionals estimate that back injuries account for nearly 20 percent of all occupational injuries and illnesses and that the cost to the nation in lost time and medical expenses runs to $20 billion annually. Appropriate warnings about these hazards via one of our signs can guide your employees to proper lifting behavior, as well as minimize expensive lost time. Likewise, our signs can alert workers to another weight-related hazard, the load capacity of floors, cranes, lifts and similar devices. We've compiled the best lifting hazard research from NIOSH, with the agency's permission, and present it for your use here. It outlines the critical factors that determine the danger of any lift, including the weight of the object, how high it must be lifted, whether twisting is involved, and so on.