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4 Warehouse Loading Dock Safety Tips
About one-quarter of all warehouse injuries happen in loading docks. For managers who want to reduce injuries in their facilities, warehouse loading dock safety should be a priority. It’s not hard to understand why accidents occur so frequently in loading docks; these spaces are extremely busy, with people and machinery working quickly and in close…
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Improving Automated Storage and Retrieval System Safety
Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (ASRS) are one of the newest and most impressive innovations among the myriad marvels of the global logistics chain. These automated systems palletize, store, and retrieve products with unmatched speed and precision, vastly increasing throughput and ensuring process controls are consistently followed. The use of these systems and other forms…
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Idle Pallet Storage: What You Need to Know to Keep Your Warehouse Safe
Whether they belong to your company’s internal pallet pool or are merely waiting to be disposed of, tall stacks of pallets are almost inevitable at warehouses and distribution centers. The location of these pallet stacks is also often haphazard, as employees pile pallets wherever they can in order to free up space. But idle shipping…
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Warehouse Racking Safety Guidelines: Satisfying OSHA
ARTICLE UPDATED ON JUNE 21, 2023 Warehouse Racking Safety Guidelines: Satisfying OSHA The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has an important job — keeping workplaces and workers safe. However, its rules are often nuanced, complex, and hard to follow, making it easy for employers to accidentally violate an obscure rule. Violations usually carry steep…
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Cold Chain Best Practices: Tips for Temperature-Sensitive Products
The cold chain is likely the most unforgiving supply chain in logistics, and it isn’t hard to understand why. It’s energy intensive to run cooling systems in storage and transportation, and the environment between transportation vehicles and storage areas is often uncontrolled and, indeed, uncontrollable. As a result, the weather can affect the viability of…
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Good Warehouse Practices in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Losses associated with temperature lapses in the pharmaceutical supply chain are estimated at $320 billion globally, a number larger than the combined market valuation of Visa, Intel, and Walmart. Plainly, reliable supply chains are critically important for the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry and for the safety of consumers. While the medical professionals who administer…
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How to Stack Empty Pallets Safely
When a pallet is emptied at your warehouse or distribution center, chances are good it’ll be used again. This means that pallets start to accumulate around the loading docks until enough pile up to make it worthwhile to ship them back up the supply chain. After all, a handful of pallets hardly justifies the fuel…
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Pallet Safety Tips: How to Keep Your Employees Injury-Free
On April 08, 2020, an employee sustained fatal injuries when pinned between a large pallet and a positioning table. In May 2019, an employee was killed in a walk-in storage freezer when he was struck by a pallet. A similar incident occurred in February 2019 when a pallet fell off the rack onto an employee…