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Shipping & receiving docks are a particularly dangerous area of most operations because so much activity takes place in a confined space. You have truck loading, unloading, staging, inspections, and much more. You have people like order pickers, drivers and guests potentially in the mix. In your average warehouse, the docks take up 20% of the square footage but host 80% of the activity. As you know, at times that activity can be fast-paced \u2013 even frenzied as full pallets are taken in, or loaded ones are being loaded into trailers. This is a time rife with possibilities for accidents. How can you prevent them?<\/p>\n
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When forklift drivers exit a truck, they are coming out blind into a zone behind the trailer where pedestrians can\u2019t see them. Drivers are entering and leaving what amounts to a darkened cave. This creates a 2-way blind spot where neither party has a clear view of the other. Pedestrians are almost always around in these locations \u2013 drivers, managers, inventory and handlers. We have all seen the forklift driver waiting beside a loaded pallet as warehouse workers are scrambling to shrink wrap or finalize the load in the staging area.<\/p>\n
If there are multiple dock doors being serviced, the hazards are amplified as lift trucks have many more angles to consider.<\/p>\n
Additionally, drivers are often backing out with a large load on their forks. Their concentration is split between what\u2019s behind them and a potentially tight space with large load inside the trailer. If a pedestrian is where he\u2019s not supposed to be, the lift truck driver is at a serious disadvantage trying to see him.<\/p>\n
To make your docks safer, you must provide the forklift driver and the pedestrian the best possible information to avoid a potentially deadly accident. Make sure both understand the risks, and make sure both know where to be, and when. Shipping & receiving docks are a particularly dangerous area of most operations because so much activity takes place in a confined space. You have truck loading, unloading, staging, inspections, and much more. You have people like order pickers, drivers and guests potentially in the mix. In your average warehouse, the docks take up 20% of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[63,295,315,312,69],"series":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-docks-shipping","tag-dock-layout","tag-forklift-safety","tag-safety-ergonomics","tag-shipping-receiving","tag-warehouse-safety"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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