Operating a warehouse carries a ton of responsibilities to your clients and customers, but that’s not to exclude employees and visitors to your business.
Ensuring their safety is a number one priority
Before the daily workload is even printed up, safety should be on the mind of every business owner, as accidents can happen and they can be much more costly after they have happened as opposed to handling it beforehand and warehouse storage racks are proven to make warehouses safer.
Everything from how your pallet racking and commercial shelving is operating to how your procedures are planned out ensures a safe working environment and keeping your business safe from any legal penalties or compensations. By simply evaluating your safety measures and equipment on a regular basis you reduce the risk of injury to employees and any loss in business.
Safe Equipment and Vehicles
Forklift incidents are among the highest rates for industrial injury or fatalities within the warehouse environment, which is why only certified operators should use them. Discipline should be dealt for those instances where misuse of equipment resulting in collapsing racking or dropping loads leads to life-threatening behaviour.
To safeguard giants forklift incidents your warehouse storage equipment should be fitted with bumpers to greatly reduce damage to everything from stock to your employees.
Adequate to Strengthened Racking
Poor shelving and pallet racking can present untold levels of danger.
By ensuring your staff follow training guidelines on how to evenly distribute weight on shelving, use correct warehouse storage racks and assess how much the racking can handle, they will be able to stack boxes and products effectively ready to distribute without any incidents.
It is also a responsibility to ensure regular checking on your racking to ensure that it is safe and up to standard. If it shows even the smallest sign of wear and risk then replace it immediately. It is not worth the risk to your business and company reputation when it does break, as racking does not repair itself over time, it only gets worse.
Evaluate Space
As the busier seasons start to bring in more demand it is important to evaluate your space and maintain a safe working environment so as not to get congested.
It may be worth adding extra levels to pallet racking and building upwards instead of blocking up the ends of aisles with pallets for specialty large products. You can also look to move stock that shifts more frequently closer to loading areas to save on aisle blockage.
It is important that every decision made when it comes to operation and functionality within your workplace, no matter what season is observed with the safety procedures and equipment in check.
For more information on industrial storage racks and other options to secure your workplace, contact the team at Monarch Shelving.
