ACGIH Recommended Loads

To help workplaces design and assess lifting and lowering tasks, the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, or ACGIH for short, developed an assessment tool. 

The tool is called the Lifting Threshold Limit Value, or “Lifting TLV” for short. The tool recommends workplace lifting conditions under which it is believed nearly all workers may be repeatedly exposed, day after day, without developing work-related low back and shoulder disorders associated with repetitive lifting tasks.