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How to Improve Pallet Durability
We’re all familiar with the scene: broken wood block pallets piled against a warehouse wall. Wood pallets like these have served their useful lifespan of around 15 to 20 trips across the supply chain and are often bound for the local landfill—or perhaps a good bonfire. On average, once every three to four trips through…
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FDA Pharmaceutical Warehouse Requirements
ARTICLE UPDATED ON MARCH 15, 2024 In any warehouse or logistics facility, a primary concern is to guarantee the safe storage and intact delivery of products to end-users. Current Good Manufacturing Practice Standards (CGMPS) are an evolving set of standards aimed at ensuring the quality and integrity of products passing through such warehouses. In most…
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Stacking Loaded Pallets: Everything You Need to Know
ARTICLE UPDATED ON JULY 28, 2023 Stacking loaded pallets correctly is crucial to preventing warehouse accidents and injuries. According to the Occupational Safety & Health Standards (OSHA) guidelines, materials should be stacked, blocked, interlocked, and limited in height to secure them and prevent sliding or collapsing. Incorrectly stacked loaded pallets pose a serious risk to employee…
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How to Properly Lift a Pallet
ARTICLE UPDATED ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2023 How to Properly Lift a Pallet Employees working in warehouses and manufacturing face a heightened risk of sustaining injuries. In 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics identified manufacturing and warehousing among the top five private sectors with the highest number of reported nonfatal work-related injuries and illnesses. A…
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Putting Foreign Material Control Procedures into Place at a Food Manufacturing Facility
Consumers of foods like canned tuna, processed chicken, and pitted olives are generally aware of the possibility that a bone or piece of pit may make it through processing. Warnings about this possibility are generally included on product packaging as well. However, the same isn’t true with regard to foreign object contamination. No one expects…
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Warehouse Injury Prevention: Easy Ways to Reduce Warehouse Accidents
When supply chain managers think about warehouse injury prevention, they’re often primarily focused on serious injuries that put lives at risk. However, these aren’t the only workplace injuries that should cause concern. Minor sprains, strains, cuts, and bruises can have a marked, detrimental impact on a company’s bottom line by slowing down productivity and reducing…
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Why Forklift Safety in the Warehouse Matters to Your Bottom Line
Proper forklift safety in the warehouse isn’t just about preventing employee injuries, though that is its primary goal. It’s also about protecting a company’s bottom line, as improper forklift use can result in both direct and indirect costs. Damaged products, reduced employee productivity, fines, penalties, and increased insurance costs are all consequences of failing to…
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How to Calculate the Maximum Weight Per Pallet
UPDATED JUNE 9, 2023 The last thing warehouse workers want to do while loading pallets is pull another pallet off the stack. It requires that they stop what they’re doing and either pull a heavy pallet off the top of a tall column of empty pallets or wait for a forklift to come by and…