Patriot Lift offers On-Lift air powered landing gear automation 2000 and 2000HD, the best-in-class air-powered landing gear automation for the transportation industry. These air-powered landing gears are highly useful for truck driver safetyimprovement, improve productivity, eliminate injuries and reduce workers compensation costs.
The best thing is, for which On-Lift landing gear automation systems are high in demand in the trucking industry is – these landing gears are good for women truck driver retention. Air-powered landing gear automation On-lift 2000 and 2000HD not only help improving productivity and reducing workers compensation but also useful for women truck driver retention, along with other benefits.
OSHA
Announcement on Patriot Lift Landing Gear Automation
Of late, OSHA has announced, Patriot Lift, the leader in air-powered landing-gear automation for the trucking industry has come up with two most powerful and reliable landing gear automation systems that can eliminate truck driver injury while raising and lowering the landing gear. In 2017, OSHA has recognized the technology of air-powered landing gear automation On-Lift 2000 and 2000HD as a significant improvement in reducing injuries over manually raising as well as lowering landing gears.
In accordance with data compiled by OSHA, the average settlement of Worker’s Compensation for truck driver injury because of repetitive cranking of manual landing gear automation is approximately $75,000. In addition, the wages paid for the worker’s paid sick leave, the cost of workers’ training for replacing drivers, the cost of disrupted schedules and impatient customers, the cost could exceed not less than $100,000 per incident.
On-Lift Landing Gear Automation System: The Pros
at a Glance
You
will be amazed to know that On-lift landing gears 2000 and 2000HD are capable
of raising and lowering the fully loaded trailers in less than 10-seconds. You
must know that cranking the landing gear on trailers is a day-to-day job for
drivers and how risky it is. It can cause severe back and shoulder pain, and
other injuries if done improperly.
Now the question is – what is the
best way to reduce strains and injuries? The answer is simple! Using
air-powered landing gear automation offered by Patriot
Lift Co LLC. As the benefits stated above and the announcement given by OSHA,
you could understand the overall benefits of using On-Lift air-powered landing
gear automation systems.
Studies have shown that the incidence of truck driver injury occurred due to raising and lowering manually operating landing gear is 2.5 percent per year. The percentage increases four-fold to 10 percent for truck drivers age-50 or older, and women truck drivers. In this condition, the Patriot Lift Landing gear automation systems helped a lot. The systems reduce the incidence of truck driver injury from up to 10 percent down to zero that is truly appreciable.
The Verdict
When auditing the return on investment for safety measurement, you should keep in mind that you would need to project the savings from what didn’t happen – making investment, as well as truck driver safety improvement is one of the most controversial topics all the time, along with operational productivity and eliminating ergonomic injuries.
So justifying
all factors, air-powered
landing gear automation On-Lift 2000 and 2000 HD from Patriot Lift Company are
two most efficient landing gear automaton systems that need to be implement in
today’s trucking industry.
Nice article on truck driver safety improvement.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.