It is important to protect yourself from injury while lifting, so take some time to research the guidelines:

1. Use your favorite Internet search engine to search on the keywords workplace safety lifting guide. Search through the results to find a guide that will help you with your own situation. The Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation site is one possible resource, as shown in Figure 1-3. We accessed the lifting guide shown in Figure 1-3 at https://www.bwc.ohio.gov/employer/programs/safety/liftguide/liftgui de.asp, but because sites tend to change their organization periodically, that link may not work for you. If it doesnt, go to their home page at https://www.bwc.ohio.gov. In the search box on this page enter lifting guidelines. You will need to poke around in the results until you locate the lifting guide. We found it by selecting the result labelled OhioBWCEmployer (Safety Services) Ergonomics, and on the resulting page we selected Lifting guidelines from the list of related links.

2. When you find a guide that allows you to enter criteria for a lift, such as that at the Ohio BWC site, make up a scenario, enter the data, and see the results it calculates.