{"id":13877,"date":"2017-09-20T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverlift.com\/?p=13877"},"modified":"2025-05-02T16:43:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T16:43:43","slug":"what-is-the-number-one-secret-to-data-center-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverlift.com\/da\/blog\/what-is-the-number-one-secret-to-data-center-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Number One Secret to Data Center Safety?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"s1\">Instinctively, you know that preventing on-the-job injuries is vital. But, you may not be focusing on what is actually the biggest risk of injury in the data center environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Data Center Safety Not Focused on Biggest Risk<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Why is it that when we mention data center safety, the first thing most data center managers think of is reducing hearing loss by blocking the noise pollution from the ambient sounds of cooling fans and the beeping, humming data center environment? Or, they worry about fire hazards or even electrocution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The biggest risk, however, is something that your engineers and maintenance teams probably do every day without thinking. But it\u2019s the one thing that actually exponentially increases your onsite risk for a safety snafu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Why is it ok for data center workers, normally hired for their brain (not their brawn) to lift heavy hardware?\u00a0Everyone does it, but no one seems to be talking about it. The truth is, you can enact every safety measure that will lessen the risk of injury, but if you don\u2019t introduce something to lessen the heavy lifting, your liability goes up.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Limited Facts on Server Handling Injuries<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.osha.gov\/oshstats\/commonstats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OSHA<\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> reports the following as the most frequent injuries in an industrial environment:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s3\">Falls<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Struck by object<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Electrocutions<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Caught-in\/between<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/gbd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Lancet<\/i><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><i>, <\/i>a well-respected publisher of social health-related findings, states that low back pain is the leading cause of human disability around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">Det<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/iif\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <span class=\"s2\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/span><\/a> (BLS) keeps tabs on the volume of nonfatal injuries in the U.S. via their Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities program. Their most recent records from 2015 show:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">Close to $3 million reported cases of on-the-job injuries that year.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">The average number of days missed per injury incident was 8.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">There were 324,700 incidents involving \u201csprains, strains, tears.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">155,740 were back injuries.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"s1\">238,610 were cases that involved slips, falls, and trips.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">While lifting heavy equipment is one of the most common tasks in today\u2019s data center, it\u2019s rare to find an onsite policy that eliminates risky procedures that threaten equipment and the people that try to migrate it.\u00a0 While data specific to server-handling injuries and equipment damage is largely unavailable or inconclusive, we think having even one employee injured in your data center is one too many.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"s1\">Preventative Maintenance Starts with an Assisted Lifting Device (ALD)<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The architects of today\u2019s data centers are increasingly concerned with preventative maintenance. That\u2019s because IT has shifted from a back-office function to the core of business today. You\u2019ve got a lot riding on ensuring data center uptime, guarding against cyber breach, and creating redundancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">It might startle you to realize you are missing one piece in your preventative maintenance plan \u2013 that is to ensure against the risk of employee injury by using an assisted lifting device (ALD).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"s1\">What is the number one secret to data center safety?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">There is only one thing you can do to reduce the risk of physical injury when installing or decommissioning new hardware. Data center safety really starts when you take the\u00a0heavy lifting out of equipment installation with an ALD.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instinctively, you know that preventing on-the-job injuries is vital. 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