In a warehouse, safety is of the utmost importance. With high shelves and heavy items, you want to ensure everything is safely stored and that daily operations and safety procedures are correctly followed. One way to increase safety in a warehouse location is through the use of warehouse netting. Nets can be an afterthought for many warehouses, even those with well-established safety procedures. However, by using netting, you increase the overall safety of your operation by helping prevent various types of accidents.
How Netting Keeps Operations Safe
- Catches Falling Items: often in the warehouse items are stacked on high shelving or other storage areas. Netting can catch these falling stock items before they hit the ground, preventing damage and possible injury. You also save money by protecting your inventory from damage.
- Prevent Common Accidents: if your warehouse has a single row of pallet racks you are more than likely to have some foot traffic on the other side as people go about their workday. This can create a potentially dangerous situation that netting can help prevent. If a forklift jostles the rack or an item is accidentally pushed off the edge of the pallet, this falling inventory can injure or even kill somebody. By having a net in place, these falling supplies are caught keeping people safe.
- Protect Equipment: when items fall or are knocked from a high storage point, this can also cause damage to your equipment such as forklifts. With a net in place, these falling items can be caught before falling onto important workplace equipment.
- Prevent Falls: if you have mezzanine areas, netting can be a useful safety addition to keep workers safe. Even with proper safety precautions such as railing and harnesses, accidents can happen and netting can serve as another safety tool and part of your overall operating procedures.
- Keep Loading and Unloading Areas Safe: a net can also catch falling objects during the unloading process. For example, if an item falls off a conveyor system, the net can quickly catch the item or box for retrieval.
Final Thoughts
Before installing netting, you should carefully review your operations to see what type of netting you need. Consider safety requirements such as the type of items you store, how much your stock weighs, and the type of pallet racks you use. Also, consider the number of bays your warehouse has and measurements such as length and width. Nets are customizable and this information can help you make an informed purchase.