Improving Manual Material Handling

Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH)

Alternatives

	Instead of lifting and pouring from the drum, insert a siphon or a pump.
	Caution: To prevent cross-contamination, chemical incompatibility, and flammability hazards, do not interchange pumps or siphons among different containers.

	Increase the size of the container or the weight of the load so that it is too large to handle manually.