Appliance dolly with two people always. There is no evidence that a backbelt will prevent a back injury, you still need to follow proper lifting procedures, lift within your capabilities. Better yet, a power dolly thru HD Supply. Depending on your company price structure with HD, it is a $1600-$2000 investment. This appliance dolly takes all the strain off the back, our company has made it mandatory for our maintenance teams.

Nancy Harper Casteel great response. I am looking to draw the correlation between what Management would expect versus what is say common sense versus how the emergency on call would respond.

Very valid point and I love your drive to help your customers, for sure. I’m not sure I would want my engineer to move a fridge in the middle of the night. That would not be on our list of “emergencies” that can’t wait for morning and more help. I would rather pay for the groceries or have my engineer move the food to a vacant until we could get this resident taken care of in this scenario.

You make a very valid point Jason, and its an important one as well. So you are “On Call” and a refrigerator goes out at 2:00AM and its your firm belief that you should go find one... possibly from say a vacant and bring that refrigerator to the Resident and do it at say 2:00AM!?

I’m so glad that everybody lives in a fairytale world where they’re always fully staffed in a resident calls at 2AM In the fridge raider stopped working after they just spent $500 on groceries

Another words is it not outlined in the Companies Policies and Procedures when they agreed to take the job.