Your purchasing department does not want to buy adjustable hydraulic pallet stands for the filter assembly
line at a company that makes oil filters for cars and trucks. They state that the current process works just
fine and that expensive, adjustable stands are not required in the Occupational Health and Safety
Administration standards. The production employees in the facility are largely female and many have
worked at the facility for decades. The current process for accessing filter parts entails having
assemblers bend over to pick up arm loads of the various filter components from a pallet or bin and
placing them on a table beside their respective workstations. The parts are assembled and pressed into
place, and the completed product placed in a separate bin. Please provide a risk-based argument as to
why the adjustable pallet stands would be the better choice.
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