When your business operation involves warehouses, it’s vitally important to consider and foresee all potential risks. Facility managers must not risk and should reduce the likelihood of incidents from happening. Otherwise, the business would suffer from significant losses that can have a catastrophic impact on the company's bottom line.
Overhead Door Company of
Philadelphia, a division
of DuraServ, shares some ideas on how our loading dock safety equipment can
control risks for your high-volume warehousing & distribution business in
Allentown.
What is the importance of loading dock in the Warehousing & Distribution operation?
In any warehouse setting, the loading dock area is the most critical and busiest working environment area. It is where the shipment of goods, items, or products is unloaded and loaded, to and from another company for shipment and delivery. Though other working areas may function, however, loading docks is where the action is and is the riskiest and dangerous working area.
In today’s warehousing and distribution facilities, the demands
for a safer and less risky facility are much challenged. Result-driven for
optimization of productivity, contained energy costs, lessened maintenance
costs, and employee safety is a must.
What are the safety precautions used in docks?
Though the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed safety protocols, still awareness and reminders of safety precautions should be implemented now and then. Below are some common safety precautions:
- Always on a look-out for loading dock hazards like tripping or slipping on wet, oily, or broken floor surfaces.
- Be mindful always to keep floors, dry, clean, and in good condition.
- Secure the dock plates in place
- Be cautious always, take precautions to prevent falls
- Be safe always when working with trucks and trailers
- Observe proper loading and unloading safety procedures
What is the safety equipment must-have in your loading dock?
As the saying goes, always safety first, however, in Overhead Door Company of Philadelphia’s warehouse
operations, safety is more than just a cliché. Some safety equipment checklists
that you should include are:
Impact barriers protect equipment or items by acting as a buffer, usually from the impacts of forklifts, or trailers. Most impact barriers are flexible that after an impact it can return to its original position.
Our Serco Dock-Guard Impact
Barriers in Allentown can withstand impact from a
15,000 lbs. load moving at 5 mph, safely protects accidental roll-offs from
forklifts and other moving objects.
Truck restraints, or known as vehicle restraints, are pieces of
equipment installed on transport vehicles or trailers to prevent it from
leaving the dock area during the unloading and loading process.
Check out some of our variety of truck
restraints models in Allentown:
- Kelley Model Star-1 Mechanical Truck Restraint
- Kelley Model Star-1 Mechanical Truck Restraint W/ Led
- Kelley Model Star-2 Mechanical Truck Restraint
- Kelley Model Hidden Hook Recessed Truck Restraint
Appropriate lighting can prevent workplace incidents by adding extra visibility to the work area and other safety hazards from happening. Both our safety and lighting models in Allentown like Kelley DGBM and Integrated Dock Door Controls will surely provide high visibility functions and improved productivity for your dock area.
Wheel restraint is a piece of equipment installed near the
forklift’s tires to prevent movement or accidental movements. Some come with
handles attached to different types of material made.
We offer several wheel
restraints models in Allentown such as:
- Kelley SC2000 Auto Surface-Mount Chock Restraint
- Kelley AC-16 Autochock In-Ground Restraint
- Kelley KMWC Manual Wheel Chock
- Serco Universal Truck-Chock In-Ground Wheel Restraint
Our protective
systems in Allentown can help make your dock
environment run smoothly and safely. Both our Impact-A-Track and DGBM Serco
Dock-Guard Safety Gate protective product systems can protect both your workers
and your products.
Learn to know more about us at 215-352-4805, or through
our website for any inquiry about our loading dock safety equipment and
truck restraints, or any loading dock equipment needs such as door products,
dock seals and shelters, dock levelers and lifts, HVLS fans, and aftermarket
products.
Learn more about our loading
dock safety equipment in Allentown, just click here.
Overhead Door Company of Philadelphia, a division of DuraServ, the largest distributor in the world
for the leading manufacturers of loading dock equipment and hi-speed doors
offers:
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The most trusted in the
market
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24/7/365 availability
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Fully trained and certified
technicians
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"One customer-one
contact" for all service needs
· Large Retails
You can also make a service request, we are servicing in Philadelphia, Bensalem, Allentown,
Reading, King of Prussia, Levittown, Langhorne, Doylestown, PA and surrounding
cities in Pennsylvania.
