Essential Warehouse Safety Procedures
Course Info
Code PO1-110
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
It’s important to operate a safe and secure warehouse in order for the rest of the business to function effectively and efficiently. With such a busy, bustling working environment incorporating different personnel and machinery, the potential for accidents can be quite high. For this reason, a foolproof health and safety protocol and monitoring system needs to be created.
It’s not just about the general safety of each individual either. It’s also important to fully utilise the technology in order to make the most of your processes and ensure there aren’t any risk areas which may be more prone to accidents.
Auditing procedures should also be brought into play to ensure that any risk areas are identified and mitigation techniques are put in place in order to reduce opportunities for health and safety failures. These audits should have accurate and up to date records which go hand in hand to cover storage, fire safety, working at heights and with machinery and also safety clothing.
Once protocols are created which work both strategically and to benefit each employee, strict training and recap regimes should also be put in place in order to keep each employee up to date with changes and gain their buy-in for future process amendments.
- To identify common risk areas and put procedures in place to reduce risks.
- To effectively train all employees on the importance of health and safety.
- To consider health and safety procedures in regard to your strategic plans.
- To create in-depth risks assessments, record-keeping processes and audit trails for future reference.
- To understand the impact of proper health and safety procedures.
- To handle and report incidents correctly when they occur.
- To develop a compliant health and safety culture within your organisation.
- To understand your obligations as an employer against the legislation.
- To understand the different types of danger found in a warehouse setting.
- To improve overall health and safety procedures within your organisation.
This training is designed for anyone who has responsibility for assessing risk or maintaining overall health and safety within the process and with all employees when managing a warehouse. It would be most beneficial for:
- Warehouse Managers
- Warehouse Operatives
- Heavy Machinery Operatives.
- Risk Assessors
- Auditors
- Health & Safety Managers
- Health & Safety Representatives
- Supervisors or Team Leaders
- Maintenance Employees
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles in order to convey full understanding. Participants will watch videos and presentations to show the impact of good health and safety procedures in comparison to unmonitored environments using real-world cases. They will conduct group discussions and take part in practical exercises to identify risk areas within the warehouse and complete role-playing activities to handle evacuation scenarios and training procedures.
Course Content & Outline
- Applying the UAE regulations to your organisation.
- Health and safety perceptions and realities.
- How to understand warehouse safety and identify issues.
- Why health and safety is important for everyone.
- Maintaining a healthy and sanitary working environment.
- Your Internal Responsibility System (IRS).
- Your responsibilities as an employer.
- Employee self-care responsibilities.
- OHSA legislation and related responsibilities.
- Discovering hazard categories.
- Chemical, physical, psychological and biological issues.
- RACE: handling hazardous situations - before, during and afterwards.
- Exploring regular contact with machinery.
- Racking and forklifts.
- Conveyors and manual handling training.
- Warehouse docking safety measures.
- Cold storage options and awareness.
- Emergency evacuation procedures.
- Evacuation equipment and its uses.
- PPE and distribution.
- Reviewing common risk areas.
- Identifying risks for the future.
- Accurate record keeping.
- First aid incident reporting.
- Implementing hazard controls.
- The basics of an effective risk assessment.
- The basics of first aid training.
- Fire extinguisher training and appointing fire marshals.
- Slips, trips and falls.
- Communication within the warehouse.
- Communicating in a noisy environment - innovative alternatives.
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