Posted By Andy
KC.

I believe the only question you need to have answered is;

Is your senior management team, or site mgr/MD behind you on this 100%

If he is, then you should be laughing.

YOU ARE THE CUSTOMER!!! You should be able and can dictate to the customer what you want, ie height, and weight of boxes.

We have recently asked a supplier to change from poly bags weighing 15kg, to card boxes weighing 10kg, much lighter and much easier to carry.

We supply heavy meat products, and have to stack it over 1.5m, but cannot reduce weight or height due to transport costs, and,....... customer requirements which makes things far more difficult. It would be great if you had the money to mechanise or automate, but what if you dont?

A little bit of reality.

1) As I said, is your boss behind you?
2) Can you easily change supplier or will any threats of this appear weak?
3) Will it cost the same if you change supplier or the way it is shipped?
4) if any increase in costs, will this be balanced out by improvements in lost time/injury etc?
5) How much effort do you need to put to this as 1.2 is not in itself terrible, ie, do you have significant injuries and or ill health from this task.

Regards

Andrew

Posted By Gordon Thelwell
Hello KC,

There are no official dimensions for the max height of pallets. As a racking safety inspector, i have seen pallets stacked as high as 2500 mm high. Andy is exactly right in his approach and advice.

May i suggest a search on the HSE prosecution site for examples of manual handling accident involving warehouses, stacking, pallets etc.

You may also want to check out the American OSHA 'e-tools', one of which is about warehouse/pallet stacking;

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC...rywarehousing/index.html

Gordon.