We have to do “Mandatory Training” every month at The Bank. Year after year it’s the same old stuff. Every year there’s a health and safety thing, which includes instructions about how to lift heavy objects. Here are the photographs of the approved style.
I know. Seriously. This is a bank with… a lot of employees. So let’s go through what’s wrong here.
1. Remove the high heel shoes. Because you see lots of guys lifting in high heels.
2. Feet level and hip width or more apart. Because you don’t want to put rotational stress on your hips.
3. How about using the holes in the side of the box as handles? Which is, you know, they’re there for.
4. Holding the box by the sides means she must generate enough friction to equal the weight of the box. It’s very inefficient and not good for long distances of say, ten yards or more.
5. Just try lifting anything in this pose. Let me know how comfortable your right leg feels.
The point is, if they can mess up something this simple, how much confidence can we have that they are doing the complicated stuff right?
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