I worked for a time in a factory shipping warehouse until the plant shut down. The product weighed on average 775 pounds so it was all handled by electric squeeze trucks which were driven by men and women but anything else heavy was forbidden to be lifted by hand by anyone! That’s right, I sometimes was slowed down because I needed to lift something that weighed forty pounds and I was required to get someone to assist me. I can put forty pounds at arm’s length overhead without effort but that was not allowed. Anything heavy enough to actually need two people to lift it could only be lifted with one of the lift trucks. The “safety” rules were absurd, they nitpicked you to death about stupid crap but ignored real dangers.
Our work place does not make you do anything unsafe and getting help to lift is encouraged. My comments were about why most women there make less. They don’t drive forklifts.