Reduce Sick Days
For as long as we have been lifting vehicles into the air to work on them we have been lifting tires up and down. There has always been a conflict between the “bent over” position of our craft and a comfortable working height.
Thru the years industry has demanded assistance in some chores, engine hoists, transmission jacks, and an array of jack stands to support one thing or another.
Something we have never had any assistance with is the constant lifting and lowering of tires from the cars and trucks being worked on. Service on today’s vehicles require a much greater percentage of the vehicles to have the tires removed for inspection. It’s not unusual to service 5 or 6 cars a day and remove the tires from each one. This accounts for lifting the tire up or down 48 times a day.
At an average weight of 48 pounds (up to 90 pounds on trucks and SUV’s) that’s 2304 pounds of lifting per day.
Using The Tire Hanger virtually eliminates the unnecessary lifting associated with the task. Reducing that much physical exertion a day will not only reduce the potential for back injury and pain, but will reduce the amount of fatigue associated with it. When the workplace is designed to practice our craft instead of Stevedore labor there will be fewer employees that come in late, or not at all.
Save Your Technician's Back
The 80 year old activity bending and lifting tires when removing them and replacing them from vehicles needs to come to a halt!
Four out of five adults will suffer some type of back injury during their life. Bending and lifting tires is guaranteed to increase your chance of injury.
The Tire Hanger can't guarantee you won't ever have a back ache,
but if you can eliminate repetitive lifting of tires all day, we can promise you will feel a lot better getting out of bed in the morning.
The Tire Hanger eli mates most of the repetitive lifting of tires and wheels during the course of servicing the vehicle.
Ergonomic reports indicate that using the Tire Hanger eliminates over 50% of the compression forces on our back and knees during the course of lifting tires. If we continue to ignore the statistics we will continue to have Technicians out on sick leave, or worse yet, a permanently damaged back or knees.
Installing Tire Hangers in your shop is a small investment to help prevent a very large concern.
Lower Worker's Comp Premiums
Brenda Vincent of Marsh Advantage America, a service of Seabury & Smith says, "An experienced workers comp agency can take advantage of the room for negotiation in workers comp premiums. All sorts of credits toward your policy can be had, if you know where to look. For instance, in addition to the 'experience modification,' some states allow up to 15 percent additional credit toward workers comp premiums for good safety-management practices."