Factors that may contribute to injury (related to agility, fitness, and lack of using good ergonomic principles) could be previous lack of exercise, over-weight condition, weak abdominal muscles, bad back, not paying attention to your surroundings, exceeding your physical capabilities, poor posture, prolonged repetitive motion using the same muscles, or not rotating work duties. To counter the potential for injury, we have selected employees who are best matched to the physical requirements of MOLLY MAID. You must safely achieve and sustain minimum production rates consistent with company standards, without frequent unscheduled interruption, tardiness, or early departure during normal business hours. Inability to meet this requirement frequently results in hurried, careless, and often dangerous unauthorized practices, which may result in injury to yourself and others and/or casualty loss in customer homes. MOLLY MAID employee selection is based on agility, fitness, and stamina. 4.3 Shared Work Load In order to help prevent the possibility of injury, you must share every aspect of housecleaning activities equally with your partner. This provides you with natural breaks in repetitive motion tasks, which may otherwise lead to tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow, etc. When you rotate the wet and dry cleaning activities from home to home and from visit to visit, you build in the natural breaks or rest periods that your body needs. Natural breaks from the cleaning routine occur as you drive between houses. These natural breaks in your work routine minimize the possibility of Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) resulting from FORCE + REPETITION + POSTURE + NO REST. 4.4 Task Selection In MOLLY MAID, the only tasks you are permitted to do are those that result in low-risk and low-liability levels. The MOLLY MAID training videos, Employee Handbook, and the MOLLY MAID Cleaning Manual define the cleaning tasks you are permitted to do in customers’ homes. There are many high-risk tasks that are not allowed, such as: Use of strong chemicals. Use only the chemicals provided by MOLLY MAID, which have been selected for effectiveness and your safety. Use of chemical concentrates. Use only the dilutions prepared for standard use by MOLLY MAID.
Mixing any chemicals together for any reason.
Climbing to clean an area out of your reach. All climbing is expressly prohibited, except for cleaning the top of the refrigerator and the upper sections of kitchen cabinet doors when the customer provides a safe and suitable step stool.
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