A warehouse is a place that stores a lot of heave goods, generally referred to as materials. This blog talks about tips for a safer experience in the material handling process. Safety under material handling is important as it deals with a lot important tools, materials and goods. With it being such an important factor to the process of manufacturing and storing goods, safety becomes one of the key factors that have to be taken care of. So, here are some tips on how to ensure a safe material handling process:

1. Practices to ensure safe material handling!

2. • A warehouse is a place that stores a lot of heave
goods, generally referred to as materials. This
blog talks about tips for a safer experience in the
material handling process. Safety under material
handling is important as it deals with a lot
important tools, materials and goods. With it
being such an important factor to the process of
manufacturing and storing goods, safety becomes
one of the key factors that have to be taken care
of.
So, here are some tips on how to ensure a safe
material handling process:
INTRODUCTION

3. • Laminate sheets with tips and pointers for
the team printed on them and put them up
all over the warehouse. This will help a
worker that is looking for some tip on
how to run a certain machine. They can
quickly refer to the poster next to them
and continue with the work without any
stoppages, it will consume a lot of time if
they have to look through their handbook
or try to recall them on their own.
Make information visible

4. • If you have a big warehouse, you will
also have a lot of equipments to handle
and move around. And even if the
warehouse is huge the lanes in between
the storage racks are generally small.
You are hence confined to a limited
space to move the storage goods.
Maintain a few rules for the traffic and
make sure the workers follow these
rules to avoid accidents and damage to
the good and the workers.
Organize the traffic

5. • You will have a lot of different types
of shipments and storage goods that
you will have to stack around the
warehouse. Stack these smartly and
you will end up saving a lot of time
while easing the process as well.
Place the shipments that are used
often, in the racks close to the exit so
that they don’t have to travel a lot.
Place the ones that are to be handled
manually at a suitable height,
preferably a height which can be
reached with the use of a small ladder.
Placement is key

6. • The workers will put in a lot of physical
strength to move the heavy shipments and
storage goods; what they might not
understand is the pressure that they are
putting on important parts of their body. A
worker might use his hands to lift a heavy
storage item but it would actually affect his
lower back as that is where the pressure
would be going, and the worker would not
be aware of this. The manager can conduct
workshops and educate the workers about
this and maybe provide a recap on basics of
how to tread around the warehouse.
Educate the workers on a regular basis

7. • When moving heavy stuff around the
warehouse or transporting them from one
station to another with the help of a sling
rope, it is pivotal to have a single person
tendering commands. The accidents in
such a case can be drastic and have major
impacts. If there are a lot of people
tendering commands to the operator, the
probability of an accident are higher as
compared to a single instructor. So, to
ensure that such accidents and confusions
do not occur, it is important to have a
single authority
Singular authority, less damage

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