What is Material Handling?
Material handling includes the unloading of your exhibit materials, storing for up to 30 days in advance at the warehouse address, delivering to the booth, the handling of empty containers to and from storage and removing of material from the booth for reloading onto outbound carriers when the show closes. It should not be confused with the cost to transport your exhibit materials to and from the convention or event. You have two options for shipping your advance freight — either to the warehouse or directly to show site.
Material handling is a service that includes freight receiving, storage, and delivery to booth before the show. It also includes removal, storage, return of empties, and return of outbound freight to loading dock at the close of the show. General service contractors offer this service so exhibitors are assured that their freight will be received and placed in their booth in a timely fashion.
Material Handling includes lifting, transporting and depositing material by human means using a variety of hand or hand-operated accessories such as hooks, bars, jacks, hand trucks, dollies, wheel barrows or other mechanical means. Manual material handling entails lifting, but also usually includes climbing, pushing, pulling and pivoting, all of which pose the risk of injury to the back. Recent studies show that nearly 70% of low back injuries are related to manual material handling.
