I realize this sounds like the impossible dream from a safety standpoint, but it’s true.

 

This is how you not only make the work place safer, you also make it more efficient.

An associate is front facing and merchandising in your store.  He needs an item on an upper shelf so he pulls a rolling ladder over.  Now he climbs the ladder to the product and realizes he can’t reach it.  If you do offer a reach pole in your store, he has to climb down the ladder to find one, wasting time and steps.  Now he has to climb back up the ladder one handed because he has the reach pole in the other hand.  He pulls the item from the shelf and now he has to go down the ladder.  Unless he suddenly grew a third arm, he will not be able to maintain at least one point of contact with the ladder with the reach pole in one hand and the item in the other hand.

According to OSHA rolling ladder safety, a person is supposed to maintain 3 points of contact on a ladder.  So how do you maintain at least three points of contact coming down a 7 foot ladder with a product in one hand and a reach pole in the other?  That was a question I asked one of the local stores team members when asking about their ladder procedures.

Recently we made a product for merchandising in the country’s biggest home center store.  They needed a small telescoping reach tool for their associates.  While testing, one of the associates thought a holster would be a good idea for the “Pocket Reacher” so it was always at the ready.   The Holster can be easily modified so it can be permanently attached to the top of a rolling ladder.  This would allow it to be used with the Pocket Reacher or our Other Reach Poles.

Besides, aiding the associate while on the ladder, our Reacher poles allow a faster, easier and safer merchandising experience.  For instance pulling heavy bags of dog food from under the bottom shelf, cases of soda or any object from the back of the pallet rack to the front is made easier and safer with one of our Reacher Poles.  Associates do not have to crawl under shelves, bent over, lifting heavy objects while bent to shift them from the back to the front.  In some of these cases, They will be tripping over the slats of a pallet, trying to move these objects while not getting their leg caught in the pallet.  Faster, Easier and Safer, what more can you want from a simple tool.

We offer two types of screw on heads for our Reacher Poles. Both are made of glass reinforced ABS plastic.  Both can be hung on the vertical of a pallet rack or on the wire shelving of a pallet rack. The standard end is narrow and can fit into tight spaces.  The Heavy Duty end is pie shaped and can easily pull heavy bagged items like mulch or dog food without cutting the bag.  It also pulls like your hand instead of like a finger so boxed items being pulled are less likely to roll off the end while pulling eliminating the need for repeated pulls.