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How To Reduce Workers Compensation Due To Repetitive Scanning?

ericjgough • Jul 12, 2016

Repetitive scanning with mobile handheld barcoding computer devices can cause carpel tunnel to an employee. How can you reduce this and keep your employees healthy and working?

workers compensation and barcode scanning

Looking for ways to reduce your Workers Compensation claims or avoid the potential for claims with employees suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome ? Do your employees experience a lot of repetitive tasks? If you’ve answered yes, you might want to look at investing in Zebra Technologies’ TC8000 Touch Mobile Computer and Scanner.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that can be caused by the repetitive motion of the wrist and hand. When the median nerve and tendons are compressed in the carpel tunnel in the wrist due to swelling, pain, and numbness develops in the hand and wrist. This can cause worker absenteeism, lost productivity, reduced health and welfare of the employee and costly Workers Compensation claims.

Workers compensation premiums businesses pay are expensive and the number of claims a business has directly affects its premium rates, either increasing them for a poor record or reducing them for effective safety procedures.

The Zebra TC8000 provides not only a means to help reduce these costs it also increases overall productivity and simplifies warehouse mobility. Below is a summary of some of the key features.

Zebra TC8000

Key Benefits/Features:

·rated at providing a 14% increase in productivity per worker vs. traditional form factors

·superior ergonomics

 ominimizes wrist and muscle motion with an innovative scan angle eliminating the need of user to tilt the device to see the screen

·integrated flexible handheld and hands-free scanning

·33% lighter in weight

 ofurther minimizing user fatigue

·extremely rugged design to handle the most extreme temperature variations and environments, plus can withstand extreme impacts and tested for multiple 8ft. drops on concrete

·contains a triple-shift battery – the largest battery in its class

 oprovides power for 3 shifts

 oprovides extensive battery metrics to measure usage and identify aging batteries that need replacing

 oability to change batteries within seconds without powering down

·integrated feature allowing legacy Terminal Emulation (TE) “green screens” to automatically change to highly intuitive, all-touch TE graphics-based screens

 oreduces the number of interactions

 oeliminates coding and modifications to the host application

 ousers able to use bear fingers, a gloved finger or a stylus

·enterprise-class Android KitKat – providing enterprise-class security, device management and data capture capabilities

·SimulScan – easily captures multiple barcodes and forms with a single scan

·advanced barcode scanning capabilities with the optional SE4750 imager

For more information on Zebra’s TC8000 Mobile Computer and to learn more about your options for all your printer, labeling and barcode printing and scanning needs, call us at (800) 643-2664 and immediately talk to one of our friendly representatives; or chat us up on Facebook , Twitter , Google+ and LinkedIn !

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