When moving home or offices, there may be several heavy items that need transporting such as wardrobes, sofas pianos and safes.
If you decide to lift heavy items yourself, especially if you don’t have specialist lifting equipment and dollies, you are risking the potential for injury.
Common injuries caused by lifting heavy items include injuries to the muscles, spine, wrist, and shoulders. It’s not just the initial process of lifting that is risky, twisting the body to reach objects can also cause injury.
Workers whose jobs require regularly lifting heavy items receive specialist training on how to lift items safely. They also have access to manual handling equipment or motorised lifting machines such as forklift trucks. If you are not one of these workers, it’s best to avoid lifting heavy objects.
After heavy items have been lifted into the moving van, there is an issue of transporting them safely. If a heavy item can shift position when the van goes around corners it can be damaged or break nearby items. Heavy items must be tied down in the van and protected with blankets or other protective materials.
It is better to leave the lifting and moving of heavy objects to the experts. At Merseyside Movers & Storers, we are a Liverpool removal company with an experienced team that knows the best ways to deal with handling heavy items. We use specialist equipment that enables us to safely move and transport even the heaviest items like grand pianos and large safes.
