Good safety is no accident

Our experience tells us that there is not one factory, warehouse or workplace in the UK that does not have racking or storage system that has not been damaged at one time or another.

After slips and falls in the workplace, accidents caused by neglect or damage to pallet racking or storage shelving in factories and warehouses must rate a close second. And more seriously there are thousands of potential accidents just waiting to happen.

The result if a company or its employees are found guilty of not demonstrating duty of care, of non-compliance or negligence, is prosecution by a magistrate with a maximum fine of £20,000 and 6 months imprisonment. Crown Courts have the power to impose limitless fines and up to 2 years imprisonment for certain offences.

Truthfully consider the following:

Q: Do you need your shelving and racking to meet the requirements of the current Health and Safety requirements and SEMA Codes and guidelines?
Q: Is there a high level of activity in your warehouse premises, and particularly high risk activity where mechanical handling equipment (fork lift trucks and the like) could damage your racking?
Q: Do you consider that some parts of your racking system are damaged, and ought to be replaced?
Q: Do you have a concern about the potential risk of injury to personnel by the continued use of damaged racking?
Q: Are you interested in minimising the risk of what would likely be an enormous cost in the event of a racking collapse? Bear in mind that you would almost certainly need to consider the cost of replacing damaged goods and merchandise, and perhaps a brand new racking system. You might also need to transfer your operation to temporary premises for a while. Then there could always be a potentially huge cost (in terms of both time and money) for legal proceedings that could also ensue.

A: If youʼve answered honestly YES to one or more of the above, then you need a Planned Maintenance Programme.