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How heavy can you lift? Calculate the maximum lifting weight at your workplace
Preventing symptoms from excessive lifting is important. But how do you know if you are lifting too heavy? Because in practice, this is still very common.
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Excessive lifting can cause complaints to the entire body; back, neck, shoulders, elbow, wrist and hand, knees and hips. In short, lifting affects the entire body. Not for nothing did the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment launch the "How TOP do you work?" campaign.
How heavy can you lift?
The amount you can safely lift depends on the situation. In the most ideal situation, the limit is 23 pounds.
Depending on such factors as how far away the load is, whether you have to turn while lifting and how often you have to lift something, the weight you are allowed to lift may be a lot lower.
Take the Lifting Test. And find out how much you can lift.
How TOP do you work
Do you want to know whether your body is being put under the wrong strain at work? Via the "How Top Do You Work?" campaign you can test what risks you might run and what you can do to reduce them!
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