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Improve Your Warehouse’s Safety with These Few Easy Updates

Maintaining a safe environment for your warehouse workers is essential. Along with reducing the odds of accidents and injuries, a safety-oriented workplace makes employees feel more secure, which can boost morale.

Often, improving safety in your warehouse isn’t as tricky as it may seem.

Here are a few easy updates that can get you started down the right path.

Enforce PPE Requirements

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical foundation when you want to enhance safety in your warehouse. By ensuring all employees have access to and use any required PPE, you prevent injuries that would otherwise occur if the PPE wasn’t in place.

Along with having clear PPE policies, make enforcement a priority. That shows employees that PPE isn’t an afterthought, but an expectation, increasing the odds that they’ll comply with the requirements.

Audit Your Warehouse for Hazards

A warehouse environment is constantly changing, often because products, materials, and equipment frequently shift around. Since that’s the case, new hazards can make their way into the environment on a daily basis.

Warehouse managers, supervisors, and employees should take part in workplace audits consistently. By spending time each day looking for hazards, corrective action can take place before accidents occur. Additionally, if a problem isn’t immediately fixable, you can place signage to alert others, use lock-out/tag-out procedures to block the use of equipment, and take similar steps, making the workplace safer.

Offer Comprehensive Safety Training

When it comes to safety, knowledge is power. When every team member is fully aware of the potential risks, knows how to spot hazards, learns reporting processes, and is informed about how to operate equipment or navigate the environment safely, accidents are less likely.

Make sure that comprehensive safety training is a core part of your onboarding process. Additionally, offer annual safety refreshers and hold mini-courses when new equipment or hazards are entering the environment to keep everyone up to speed.

Make Safety an Ongoing Part of the Conversation

In many cases, companies offer safety training, but they don’t make safety part of the ongoing conversation. As a result, employees may become complacent once the training is no longer at the forefront of their minds.

By having safety conversations regularly, you encourage engagement and boost awareness. One simple way to keep everyone thinking about safety is by having a standup meeting at the start of the shift and beginning it with a safety tip. You can even ask employees to be the ones to provide the tip of the day, getting them to think about the risks they face and how to avoid them. Ultimately, it ensures that safety discussions occur regularly, leading to a safety-first culture.

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If you’re looking for safety-conscious candidates for your open positions, The Bradley Group can help. Our team maintains a carefully developed talent pool brimming with professionals who make on-the-job safety a priority, making it easier to create a safety-first culture.

Regardless of the scope of your hiring needs, The Bradley Group’s process delivers exceptional results affordably and quickly. Contact us to find out more about services today.

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