The number one concern when operating a busy warehouse environment is promoting a safe workspace through the day to day operations.

Due to the potential for large, heavy items being stored, the safety of staff members is vital in ensuring that the storage solutions and warehouse storage equipment are correctly installed, inspected and to a safe standard, ensuring no one is prone to risks or injury and business can continue to be efficient.

At Monarch Shelving, we understand the risks as well as the benefits, so highlighted are some considerations to make sure your operations and shelving solutions are satisfactory.

Equipment

The big key in ensuring your warehouse storage is working correctly for your business falls into using the correct equipment. To best maximise space and keep your workforce safe, you may require more compact storage solutions for different products or certain areas of the warehouse that can be better utilised by commercial shelving.

Radically increasing the likelihood of safety in the usage of the right kind of storage shelving, you ensure that your warehouse environment layout provides better access and space in aisles.

Organization

By ensuring your products on your pallet racking and shelving are correctly labelled and segregated, you provide better productivity by not having all products stored together in mismatching heights and widths on shelves.

This eliminates staff searching for long periods and holding up orders, making sure that everything is presented in order and easily located. Managing your inventory to this level provides safety against accidents caused by overcramming or ill-fitting products to shelves that could fall from being improperly stacked.

Correct Stacking

The number one cause for warehouse injury comes in the form of warehouse racking collapse, due to it not being inspected properly, installed to standard or collision from forklift.

This makes it vital that all pallet racking is stacked properly for the safety of your staff. Depending on the item there are a few different ways that products can be stacked, such as bagged items in a pyramid or uneven items having plywood underneath for stability.

By making sure that your staff understand through training about removing products from the top of the pile instead of the bottom or middle, you greatly reduce falling products. Also, regular training for forklift and picking drivers on how to navigate aisles safely is required, as well as regular shelving inspections whether an incident has occurred or not.

 Contact the team at Monarch Shelving for all your needs for industrial storage racks.