#loadingdocksafety

Due to the complicated demands of the warehouse process, it is necessary and crucial to have strategy to enforce safety rules, to administer, control, and maintain safety measures to all warehouse employees including machines and equipment.              

In order to prevent basic dock accidents from happening, below are some safety measures every warehouse should be aware of:

First, contact Passport Door and Dock Systems to evaluate your warehouse docking process.

Dock levelers should be monitored properly in such a way there is not much gap between the loading dock and the trailer. Because during the unloading /loading process the trailer’s dimensional height shifts , make sure the level height between the surfaces are in parallel.

Outside water contamination and wet loads produces slip hazards but can be proactively prevented by using dock canopies and dock seals.

Wheel and truck restraints should be used against accidents produced by drive-away and trailer creeps. Truck drive-away happens when the driver made a wrong presumption that the loading /unloading workload is finished but is not, thus there is a need to temporarily restrain the vehicle and confirm the workload status. Meanwhile, trailer creeps happens when fork trucks moves upon entering and exiting the trailer, the unrestrained trucks crawl or ‘creeps’ from the dock door. 

The area between the dock door and fork truck should be lighted properly, to prevent accidents due to poor visual safety measures.

Placing a safety net between the pedestrian traffic control in the dock area and elevated loading conveyor, for prevention against accidental falling objects thus minimizing personnel injury and goods damages.

Keeping the docking environment clean all the time reduces accidents and hazards. Basically, maintaining a general housekeeping should be strictly implemented by decluttering, collecting, classifying and dusting unwanted debris.