Meatpacking

OSHA says it will dramatically reduce ergonomic injuries through a combination of industry-targeted guidelines, tough enforcement measures, workplace outreach, advanced research and dedicated efforts to protect Hispanic and other immigrant workers.

The Poultry Processing Ergonomics Guidelines is OSHA’s third set of industry-specific guidelines aimed at industries with high ergonomic incidence rates.

Modeled after OSHA’s 1990 Ergonomic Program Management Guidelines for Meatpacking Plants, the poultry processing guidelines include:

• An overview of injuries in poultry processing operations
• An explanation of how ergonomics can reduce these injuries
• A description of how to analyze the workplace, implement solutions, train employees, address injury reports and evaluate the progress of the ergonomic solutions.

Additionally, the guidelines offer example ergonomic solutions regarding workstation design, tools, manual materials handling and personal protective equipment.

ErgoDynamics offers the following services to assist your facility in this process:

• Program Development
• Workstation Assessment
• Training of Managers and Production Employees