Here at Advanced Handling & Storage Ltd – Advanced Handling & Storage, we value our customers and provide them with the highest quality storage solutions for their businesses. By helping to make their workplaces, warehouses and stockrooms more organised and efficient, their businesses can grow and succeed. Another important aspect to a successful business is safety. The safety of your employees and your products is important and creating a safe workplace is one of the main jobs of a business owner.

To help you make your facility safer, we have created this useful guide that offers helpful tips and information that can help you improve your workplace safety and help reduce hazards and injuries.

Use Fire Rated Wall Panels

Most warehouses store flammable materials and if you use fire rated wall panels, you could be saving the lives of your employees and customers. There are many different types of fire rated wall panels available and choosing the one that is right for your building is important. Many industrial shelving systems are designed to mount securely to these panels as well.

Protect Your Hearing

Is your warehouse loud? Employees could experience hearing loss of they don’t take the proper precautions. Hearing protection should always be worn in areas where the sound levels are above 90 decibels and if your building uses mobile shelving, you could position them to block out much of the sound before it reaches the office areas.

Install Barrier Railings

If your warehouse is large and you use a forklift to move products from one end to the other or onto rack shelving systems, be sure to install barrier railing to keep employees from walking into the path of a forklift. Many times, the driver cannot see around the load and won’t be able to stop safely in time. Even when a forklift is traveling at low speeds carrying a heavy load, it will have a lot of momentum, enough to serious damage.

Proper Layout

Ensuring that your warehouse or stockroom is designed to be efficient, effective and safe is important. This includes having the right shelving and storage solutions to ensure employees can access products easily and without having to trade safety for convenience.

Get in Touch with Advanced Handling & Storage

If your UK business needs an affordable solution to your shelving and storage needs, choose a reputable company like Advanced Handling & Storage Ltd, that can help you choose the right storage solutions to meet your needs and the needs of your employees. Call us on 0800 345 7088 or send an email to [email protected]

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