You want to protect your employees within this busy landscape so they can continue to work and your facility can continue to provide goods. Use these four ways to ensure safety in your warehouse to protect your workers and your business.
Prioritize Safety Trainings
What do you do when a new employee starts work? You train them. In warehouse operations, part of this training includes safety procedures. Some safety procedures sound like common sense, such as cutting away from your body when opening boxes or spotting mirrors at crossings and aisles. However, everyone comes into warehouse work with different levels of knowledge and experience. Prioritizing these safety trainings, even ones that seem like common knowledge, puts everyone on the same page.
Provide Proper Personal Protective Equipment
Part of that aforementioned safety training should include wearing proper personal protective equipment (PPE). While you can tell your employees what PPE to wear, it’s better to provide the necessary PPE to ensure compliance and to maintain safety standards across your workforce.
Perform Regular Equipment Inspections
Your warehouse probably features various pieces of heavy equipment. Most warehouses use pallet jacks, forklifts, and other powered industrial trucks to lift and maneuver goods. Smaller, regular pieces of equipment, such as ladders, lightbulbs, and trash cans, are also important features within your warehouse. You should regularly inspect all of this equipment to ensure everything in your warehouse is working properly. If a forklift won’t start or a trash can cracks, you need to know immediately so you can repair or replace the affected item. Regular inspections can help you catch these problems and fix them as quickly as possible.
Practice for Potential Emergencies
Providing thorough training, ensuring employees are wearing PPE, and performing regular inspections are great ways to ensure safety in your warehouse. However, these aspects are more focused on preventing emergencies instead of responding to them. While you always hope that your warehouse stays safe and never experiences an emergency, that isn’t always the case. Emergencies can happen anywhere and everyone in your warehouse needs to know how to respond to them.
Teach emergency procedures along with your safety training, then practice for various types of emergencies. For example, you might teach your employees about the seven-step process of a spill response and what roles different employees will play in this response. After educating your employees, run a drill as if something spilled and have everyone respond according to their training. If a mistake occurs, write down the details so you can address it and ensure it doesn’t happen during a real emergency.
Warehouses, like all workplaces, hold potential dangers. When you focus on proper training, equipment, and emergency drills, you can set your employees up for safe and successful operations.
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