Safe Workplace Basics the Help Ensure Employee Safety
In a warehouse or manufacturing facility, there are basic steps to take in safety planning and monitoring that help ensure employee safety.
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Employee Burnout & Stress Compromises Warehouse Safety
Are your warehouse employees suffering from burnout on the job? Did you know this can increase the risk of accidents and injuries?
How to Reduce Risk in the Most Dangerous Areas of a Warehouse
Without change, history will repeat itself. This is especially true for the areas in your warehouse where accidents and mishaps commonly occur, or inventory is misplaced.
Injuries Impact Workers & Their Family – So Here’s How to Prevent Them
The long-term effects of a careless accident or injury in your facility can alter an employee’s life – and their family – forever. It is easy to forget the importance of everyday safety measures and how a split decision can completely change everything as we know it. Accidents happen and if they cause permanent injury, life is never the same again.
A Costly OSHA Violation Could be Reimbursed If Unjustified
Safety is one of the biggest, most costly concerns in the supply chain industry and OSHA violations can be extremely costly. But what if your facility is fined erroneously? While it is very common for day-to-day operations to become lax when it comes to safety protocol, it is also possible for OSHA to make mistakes in its evaluation.
Forklift Safety Checklist – Know the Basics
What it the best way to improve safety in your facility? Leading indicators play a big role in preventing worker fatalities, injuries, and illnesses as well as strengthening operational outcomes in the workplace. Your cohesive safety program should leverage leading indicators as a guide for operational changes in processes, programs, and altering employee behavior to cultivate a safer work environment.
Forklift Monitoring That Tracks Operator Behavior Cuts Warehouse Costs
Improving forklift operator behavior and driving skill is one of the most effective strategies to reduce warehouse costs. Accidents, impacts, and injuries are costly mistakes that are often avoidable. But, the success of this strategy depends on the quality of data you receive from your forklift monitoring software.
Video: Precautions for Forklift Safety & OSHA Compliance
Forklift operation is not as simple as driving a car. There are several precautions that OSHA expects your warehouse or distribution center to take to help ensure forklift safety. The question is, do safety practices in your facility meet expectations?
There are a few key things you can do to create a culture of safety in your warehouse. First, watch this video to see how your software platform can make safety compliance simple.
Join OSHA for Safe + Sound Week Aug. 12
There are probably a few things happening in your warehouse right now that are putting safety in jeopardy and increasing the risk of forklift impacts.
This is why OSHA has created Safe + Sound Week, a nationwide event held each August that recognizes the successes of workplace health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep workers safe. The year’s event is August 12th – August 16th.
Use Telematic Data to Control Workman’s Comp Costs
There’s a myriad of risk for employees working in a warehouse or distribution center. Management must not only worry about safety protocol, but the financial impact injuries may cause. Workers’ compensation insurance premiums and claims on your policy are a part of a costly injury equation, but your telematic data could be helping you manage those costs better.
