Prevent damage to stock
“All involved in warehousing and logistics will be aware that damage to stock during handling and storage costs our industry hundreds £’m every year,” Carolyn Svahn from Practical Warehouse Solutions says.
"There are solutions out there, such as the award winning StockSafe, see www.stocksafe.co.uk or come and talk to us at IMHX, Sept., NEC."
"There is a reason more compelling than cost to invest in preventing damage and that is the resultant slips trips and falls," Svahn continues. "According to the Health and Safety Executive, they represent 'more fatal and major/specified injuries to workers than any other injury kind'. Working days lost are 1.5 million.
"HSE categorise us within Transport and Storage which had the second highest recorded number of slips, trips and falls. Overall progress is being made in the right direction in the UK, worryingly this does not apply to fatalities which remain level year on year.
"However as an industry Warehousing and Logistics is over three times the number of incidents at 328 per 100,000 workers, compared to 108 per 100,000 overall. So our challenge is to act to prevent incidents."
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