B2B Contact – The Importance of a Safe Working Environment when managing Warehouses & Storage
Article from R&D Machinery near Totnes
Managing a warehouse and/or storage facility can be a difficult task, especially when you consider the regulatory compliance that goes together with the job. The costs to businesses are also impactful as shown here;
- 39.8 million workdays lost due to workplace injuries.
- 325 cases prosecuted by HSE in GB 2019/2020
- £35.77 million pounds in health and safety offences.
- Average 1,300 accidents involving forklift trucks every year.
- 19% of all workplaces manual handling injuries are made up of elementary storage occupations.
- 29% of employee injuries are from falls, slips, or trips.
- Up to 10 years in jail and £1 million pound fine – the cost of failing to comply to LOLER and PUWER regulations 1998.
- 39.8 million workdays lost due to workplace injuries.
- Breach of health and safety – 2 years in jail and unlimited fines.
- Average cost of fines £100,000.00 relating to material handling accidents.
Even during their quietest period’s, warehouses are under pressure. With so much going on – under such a small roof – there is always a risk of something going wrong. The casual worker may brush off damage to a pallet, racking, a product, or the machine they are using – and yet its consequences could have serious ramifications.
Injuries are not outside the realm of possibility in the workplace as the statistics above show. Warehouse safety should be treated with the upmost respect, otherwise, it could lead to loss of stock, loss of production and potentially and the worst-case scenario loss of life.
R&D Machinery is a privately owned company with depots located in the South West of England giving quick and easy access to Devon, Cornwall, Somerset, and Dorset. We are the main dealers for the entire Manitou product range of machinery, which includes over 100 different models working in all different industry areas. I am the Industrial specialist and can provide great ways to improve your productivity, time, damage control and ultimately the safety of your staff.
Jason Fullard, of R & D Machinery Ltd
Email – Jason@rdmachinery.co.uk
