Morrison Utility Services, is trialling high-tech, spring-loaded, upper body exoskeletons, designed to elevate and support arms during manual, chest-high-to-overhead handling tasks.
Workers on the company’s Yorkshire Water contract team are exploring the potential health, safety, wellbeing and productivity benefits of the EksoVest exoskeletons.
The vests are supposed to result in fewer strain related injuries, a reduction in lost working days and lower fatigue levels, leading to increased worker alertness, productivity and work-quality.
The trial programme includes lifting and handling activities in the company’s Normanton stores depot and around hoppers used by site clearance support teams. It is also being used to support reinstatement teams using the company’s purpose-built Roadmender asphalt unit, and supporting backfill teams loading and unloading rammers onto the sides of vehicles.
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