Wednesday, July 14, 2010

10 TIPS FOR A SAFER WAREHOUSE






10 STEPS FOR A SAFER WAREHOUSE
Injury prevention starts with leadership, training, communication, risk assessments, and metrics.

1. START AT THE TOP
While everyone is responsible for their individual safe behavior, the company's leadership team must own, lead, and participate in safety management. It's not enough for leadership to merely support safety; they must exhibit behavior that clearly demonstrates to all associates that safety is critical to the success of the organization.

2. TRAINING IS PARAMOUNT
From the first day of an employee's tenure with a company, training is key to safer warehouse operations. Educate all associates on safety-related practices, requirements, and responsibilities. Once the organization's vision and safety requirements are explained, the groundwork has been laid for continuous training.

3. OBSERVE ASSOCIATES IN ACTION
After associates receive basic safety training, reinforcing workplace safety behavior is ongoing. Managers should observe, for example, how an employee drives a forklift during the first few days following forklift training, and be prepared to offer immediate and meaningful feedback. Good managers point out the positives of safe behavior, and coach areas that need improvement, often on an ongoing basis.

4. GET EMPLOYEES INVOLVED
Create cross-functional, in-house safety teams that meet at least monthly to focus on preventing accidents and injuries by identifying hazards and unsafe conditions in the warehouse, and ensuring proper controls are in place to bring all hazards within acceptable levels of risk. Teams should include warehouse workers, forklift drivers, supervisors, vendors, and customer liaisons.

5. WORK SCHEDULES TO MATCH DUTIES
It is important for employees to be safe, and for employers to create a reasonable workday and safe workplace to facilitate their duties. To avoid unsafe behaviors caused by fatigue, consider implementing ergonomic improvements; rotating job assignments; supplementing shifts with temporary or part-time employees; adding a shift; and providing adequate rest and beverage breaks, especially in hot and humid conditions.

6. ASSESS RISK
Identify individual job activities, the potential hazards associated with each activity, and their existing controls. Then assign a risk rating to each activity by using a numeric formula that considers the probability of loss, the severity of loss, and the frequency of each activity. The risk rating will determine if additional controls are needed

7. PERFORM SITE ASSESSMENTS
A group of health and safety professionals should work hand-in-hand with site management to seek out unsafe conditions and hazards, and create action plans to bring risk within acceptable levels before employees are injured or property is damaged.

8. INVESTIGATE ACCIDENTS
After an incident, identify immediate and upstream root causes, and implement better controls to prevent a repeat occurrence.

9. COMMUNICATE
Frequent and consistent communication between all levels of management and associates regarding safety processes, performance, and expectations is critical to building an effective safety culture and successful safety performance.

10. GATHER MEANINGFUL AND TIMELY METRICS
Create metrics that reflect the presence of safety (leading indicators), not just the absence of safety (trailing indicators). Metrics must also be designed based on their intended audience. For example, metrics for safety managers will need to be very detailed and facilitate analysis of correlations and trends. Metrics for operating managers need to be at a higher level and help identify deficiencies the team can address.


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19 Comments:

Anonymous Rose said...

Thanks a lot to share these informative news with us.I hope this will be helpful me to improve my business.

05:15  
Blogger Ben Benjabutr said...

Logistics Management practitioners also have to deal with safety of operational level staffs. Thank you for sharing practical tips.

00:14  
Anonymous Natalie said...

Ensuring proper installation of warehouse storage, and carefully inspecting used racking for integrity can also help create a safer warehouse environment. Working with qualified warehouse design specialists will help determine how much and what type of storage each unit can handle to reduce workplace injury and profit loss.

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Anonymous seo leads said...

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Anonymous Logistics Guy said...

Maintaining safe warehouse is the good way to retain employees. Because everyone wants to work in safe place.

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Anonymous Ergonomics Warehouse said...

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Anonymous forklift training said...

Forklift safety is absolutely vital to our industry, glad to see someone posting about it.

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Anonymous Racking said...

Some good points, but I have to agree with Natlaie and Logistics Guy - the planning and upkeep of the warehouse are also very important.

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Anonymous James Reynaldo said...

In my opinion site assessments are the most important of the tips you mention. A good assessment can uncover literally dozens of potential hazards. At my 3pl company we conduct them on an annual basis and then follow up with safety training. Great tips, thanks.

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Blogger Saturnino said...

It should also be noted that safety is a habit. So, it would be wise to train employees to not leave items in aisles, on the floor, or perched insecurely on a surface. They should always be reminded to clean up all spills at once, report loose-fitting or damaged flooring or other tripping hazards they can’t fix, and dispose of all trash immediately in proper containers.


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