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Hi all,
Do you guys have any advice regarding the main issues that can arise in the above environments, its something I am looking into but would like some starting points if possible.
Many thanks.
Russ
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OK,
racking & racking inspections
flts & other lifting gear
manual handling injuries
work at height (man-riders etc)
traffic movements & pedestrians
welfare issues such as temperature & lighting
remote/lone working if the place is big enough
all the fire aspects
protection of utilities and services from vehicle collisions
safe stacking
access to and egress from
waste management, such as cardboard shredders etc
horseplay,
Just for starters,
John
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thanks John, thats a good starting point.
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If your warehouse stores aerosols, you should also look at DSEAR and consider Zone 2 requirements for fire mitigation.
Adrian
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I was H&S Manager at a large distribution warehouse a few years ago. All the points mentioned I concur with.
My biggest pain was funnily enough a leaking roof. The building wasn't old but the roof covered a huge area and had plastic corrugated skylights where the fixings had perished. The rainwater used to get in and cause problems with the electrical installation.
You might want to think about foreign workers (if applicable) we had a large Polish workforce at the time with many not having English as their first language!
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Russ
Once you have got HSG 76 and gone through what the HSE expect, go out into the warehouse for a few days, if you can shadow the main tasks, write down the risks and draw up a matirx of what needs assessing and controlling.
Without knowing more about the warehouse you are looking at it is difficult to give a lot of advice, but you will probably have some areas that could cause serious injury/death (MHE, Wagons, Drive off) and others that will be more common but with lower levels of injury (slips and trips, manual handling)
You need to consider which to tackle first. I would suggest those that could cause serious injury/death.
You will also have some distribution specific stuff - pallet racking, FLT training, loading docks, traffic management, load security.
Ian
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