Warehouse Safety Should Be Your Highest Priority

1. 保持仓库整洁
2. 设备维护保养
3. 叉车规范作业
4. 必要的培训教育

MAY 27, 2016 BY KIRSTEN AUSTIN [Safety] If you have not read our blog on Why My Mom Would Have Been a Great Warehouse Manager please do. Safety was one the major points. Let’s discuss this at a high level. Keep Your Warehouse Clean My largest pet peeve is a dirty and cluttered warehouse. Yes, I understand that based on the products and how fast moving your inventory is this is not always simple. However, this should be your most critical initiative and a standard for operations. Not only does a clean warehouseprovide better over-all visibility but it also helps to prevent slips, falls and drops. Keep your floor clean. Clean your aisles, racks, bins, docks and all areas of your warehouse. Look for more organic products to reduce your team’s exposure to chemicals. Build cleaning into your daily schedule. Maintain Your Equipment and Machinery You need to properly maintain your materials handling, packaging machines and all equipment in your warehouse. Preventative maintenance is paramount in the prevention of accidents. You hear all the time how injuries and even fatalities could have been prevented. There is no excuse for not properly maintaining your machinery. Most equipment companies that sell machinery provide maintenance training and instruction. Forklift Safety – Please Let’s Discuss This Let’s do an analogy, most of us drive cars. Sometimes you get to the point that your car becomes an extension of you. You’re driving mimics your mood – lazy, distracted, rushed etc. Then boom a near accident reminds you to PAY ATTENTION! You completely forgot you are in a piece of machinery weighing at minimum 3500 lbs. and you could hurt or even kill someone. This is the very same concept with forklifts. The number of annual forklift accidents is insane. Make sure your drivers are trained properly before they even operate your forklift. Even if you hire an experienced forklift driver take note that there are various makes and models that are designed differently. So proper training on a specific forklift is a must. Education and Training is Key That leads to my last point. Your employees need to be properly trained before they work within your facility. This seems so basic but this is imperative to your operations especially the safety of your personnel. No matter how simple or complex your facility may be, it is critical to have an on-boarding program for new team members and ongoing training. This ensures your safety standards are the highest they can possibly be and also prevents serious injuries or worse.