During order picking, goods are retrieved from rack systems and placed on trucks or pallet transport equipment, for example in order for orders to be made up in mail-order companies. By its very nature, this task involves considerable manipulation and moving of loads. It is also often performed under high time pressure. It is therefore all the more important for the transport equipment to support the worker as much as possible in his or her task.
Order pickers in the Crown GPC 3000 range support the worker ergonomically in several ways. Besides the facility for raising the load pallets to a comfortable height for loading, features such as the lifting platform and the step also facilitate the retrieval of goods from the higher shelves of racks.
Standards relevant to order pickers and powered pallet trucks with operator's platform can be found on <link http: nora.kan-praxis.de ergonora en _blank extern die externe seite>ErgoNoRA by use of the following search terms:
The Technical Report ISO/TR 22100-3 describes how ergonomic principles can be applied during the risk reduction process according to ISO 12100 and how ergonomics standards can be applied to machinery. It helps designers take decisions with respect to ergonomics during the machine design process and can also be used when no relevant type C standards are available.
